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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: skinowski who wrote (7221)	6/28/2009 8:46:49 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

No, but you seem to "interpret" them as lemmings and rationalizers (LOL). I am interpreting them as human, subject to the same cognitive errors and psychological imperatives as the rest of us. Most of what docs do is what's called "evidence based medicine". I have seen too many examples of doctors doing what they were taught in medical school thirty years ago or what "common knowledge" is on a topic to believe that. I don't believe that most doctors have the time to keep up nor the intellectual curiosity/analytic skill to aptly interpret some of the crap that is publicized. I have read so many articles by doctors that indicate that they don't have the capacity to differentiate between correlation and causation, for example, or to isolate variables or identify significance in statistics. If they can't do that, how can they be trusted to operate on an evidence basis? I think it prudent to be cautious in accepting doctors' opinions in many arenas. I followed "consensus best practices" in the past that turned out badly. Now I read studies myself.