You’re right, but not nice enough

This editorial essentially sides with the physicians regarding their letter against homeopathy in the UK, but says they’re too mean:

Where the 13 medical scientists went wrong yesterday was in their tone. The NHS is supposed to be seeking to become patient-centred, under which there is “shared decision-taking”. Medicine aims to become a team effort. And scientists are in urgent need of more public support. All this will only be achieved, as Harry Cayton, the patient tsar has noted, if medical scientists change their approach and “begin to talk with us, rather than at us”. Yesterday’s declaration had the smack of yesterday’s medical men failing to see the difference between wellbeing and clinical outcomes.

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