I was amazed to open my US News and World Report (a mass-circulation news
magazine) to find an article by Dr Bernadine Healy that resurrects some of
the less credible complaints about EBM, and agrees with the Holmes et al
article that EBM advocates are "microfascists."
Her article is here:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/articles/060903/11healy.htm
I made a quick attempt at a response on Health Care Renewal
(http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/) here:
http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2006/09/bernadine-healy-takes-some-cheap-shots.html
But given Healy's world-wide reputation and the circulation of USNWR, I
hope someone with more gravitas from the EBH community will do a rebuttal
and get it published someplace noticeable.
Roy M. Poses MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Brown University School of Medicine
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