Please take a moment to comment on this article about the struggle to practice evidenced based care in the medical community. Believing in Treatments That Don’t Work
Here is my favorite quote:
Treatment based on ideology is alluring. Surgeries to repair the knee should work. A syrup to reduce cough should help. Calming the straining heart should save lives. But the uncomfortable truth is that many expensive, invasive interventions are of little or no benefit and cause potentially uncomfortable, costly, and dangerous side effects and complications.
Does anyone else see some of the missing examples? How about bed rest for preterm labor, induction for post dates or macrosomia, or universal gestational diabetes screening as a start?