The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine

This new concept for how medicine would be developed and conducted is called evidence-based medicine.

Evidence-based medicine was to provide a more rigorous foundation for medicine, one based on science and the scientific method.

Evidence-based medicine is "The conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients." The aim of EBM is to integrate the experience of the clinician, the values of the patient, and the best available scientific information to guide decision-making about clinical management.

There is a big flaw in the logic of evidence-based medicine as the basis for the practice of medicine as we know it, a practice based on science; one that determines care down to the level of the individual patient.

The COVID-19 crisis of 2020 to 2022 has exposed for all to see how evidence based medicine has been corrupted by the governments, hospitalists, academia, big pharma, tech and social media.

Until this problem is corrected, evidence based medicine will remain an illusion.

The short term stimulus to biomedical research because of privatization has been celebrated by free market champions, but the unintended, long term consequences for medicine have been severe.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/03/no_author/the-illusion-of-evidence-based-medicine/