“Evidence Based Medicine” has so corrupted medical education that doctors who actually think (as opposed to applying algorythms) are consider “outside the mainstream.”

So when someone does not know what to do, the answer is always “get more data” instead of “think and figure this out.”

This is not just an ER problem – IM and hospitalists (like me) are also to blame. It’s not any one specialty’s fault – it’s the fault of a society that values meaningless data more than carefully reasoned conclusions.