OK Paul: each method at its own field.
dr. Federico Barbani
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Glasziou" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: Broadening the view of medicine
> Dear All,
> Its "horses for courses". Intuition is great for many everyday
> things; and QI is great to monitor whether local practice is
> improving. But no one's intuition nor QI can tell you whether its the
> green pill or the blue pill which is the effective one (or the killer).
> Take care,
> Paul Glasziou
>
>
> At 30/09/2005, Rakesh Biswas wrote:
> >Thanks for this great article. Truly thought provoking! Whether we
> >learn from RCTs or from day to day personal experience (that if
> >shared systematically has the potential to become good science), at
> >the end of the day we retain what clicks with our internal being. As
> >described in the article, no one learns parenting from laboratory
> >results and practising medicine is akin to successfull parenting.
> >How much does intuition play a role in this so called pragmatic
science?Rakesh
> >
> >On 9/30/05, Mayer Brezis
> ><<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >Attached is thought-provoking piece by Harvard Professor Don Berwick
> >(viewed as one of the most influential people in US healthcare policy),
> >related to our recent discussion on "outcome research".
> >
> >Teaching EBM, I tell my students that evidence is also to observe how
> >knowledge is being applied. Am I wrong?
> >
> >Mayer Brezis, MD MPH
> >Professor of Medicine
> >Center for Clinical Quality & Safety
> >Hadassah University Hospital
> >Jerusalem
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> Paul Glasziou
> Department of Primary Health Care &
> Director, Centre for Evidence-Based Practice, Oxford
> ph: 44-1865-227055 www.cebm.net
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