Comments on: CT scans and the ER http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/ct-scans-and-er.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/05/ct-scans-and-er.html#comment-75494 Anonymous Sun, 27 May 2007 02:34:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/05/ct-scans-and-the-er.html#comment-75494 Grunt Doc is right but for the wrong reason.<br/><br/>"Evidence Based Medicine" has so corrupted medical education that doctors who actually think (as opposed to applying algorythms) are consider "outside the mainstream."<br/><br/>So when someone does not know what to do, the answer is always "get more data" instead of "think and figure this out."<br/><br/>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. Grunt Doc is right but for the wrong reason.

“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.

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