tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post115636807184615678..comments2024-03-28T01:27:23.408-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: The Post-Modernist View: Evidence-Based Medicine as Fascism?Roy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-1164823653131058162006-11-29T13:07:00.000-05:002006-11-29T13:07:00.000-05:00EBM is simply a tool. If you buy the notion (and ...EBM is simply a tool. If you buy the notion (and I do) that EBM consists of the best available evidence informed by clinical judgment, then we are in the arena of good individual physicians who are well read and apply their professional and research knowledge to improve the quality of health for their patients. If so, then what is the debate? This is an unarguable good for physicians and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-1157427849799025912006-09-04T23:44:00.000-04:002006-09-04T23:44:00.000-04:00The true "body blow" has to do with the very natur...The true "body blow" has to do with the very nature of evidence...What would happen to post-modernism if we applied our tools to their "discourse"? What would we say about the evidential (epistemologic) status of comments by philosophers (of any country)? I am afraid that most of their discussions would settle down at Level D or X. (Isn't most of philosophy, when they appeal to empirical fact, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-1156784271544677022006-08-28T12:57:00.000-04:002006-08-28T12:57:00.000-04:00I would agree that this article is not a hoax, but...I would agree that this article is not a hoax, but a serious postmodern stab at the Evidence Based Medicine movement. I'd critique the article for not explaining its terms for those not in the post-structuralist fan club. <BR/><BR/>Much of the authors' theoretical language comes across as "ossifying" and "hegemonic" in its own right. It is rarefied and yet absolutely typical of many cultural Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-1156738789911545182006-08-28T00:19:00.000-04:002006-08-28T00:19:00.000-04:00Oh, come one no-one ever takes the Quebecois serio...Oh, come one no-one ever takes the Quebecois seriously (at least I hope not!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-1156430500620117862006-08-24T10:41:00.000-04:002006-08-24T10:41:00.000-04:00". I have always suspected one reason for this is ...". I have always suspected one reason for this is that EBM potentially challenges ideas, programs, and products in which people believe, or in which people have vested interests. If you really believe gizmo X works, or if you make a lot of money selling gizmo X, you may not be enthused about a rigorous review of the evidence that suggests that maybe gizmo X doesn't work so well."<BR/><BR/>This isAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-1156410232090712212006-08-24T05:03:00.000-04:002006-08-24T05:03:00.000-04:00The following is Archie Cochranes War Record his d...The following is Archie Cochranes War Record his decendents should seriously consider suing the authors of this ridiculous article.<BR/><BR/>1936 : International Brigade, Spanish Civil War. <BR/>1939-46 : Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps. <BR/>1941 : Taken prisoner of war in June 1941 in Crete; PoW medical officer in Salonika (Greece) and Hildburghausen, Elsterhorst and Wittenberg an der Elbe (Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-1156377669486628032006-08-23T20:01:00.000-04:002006-08-23T20:01:00.000-04:00I tried to plow through that article and came aw...I tried to plow through that article and came away wondering what the heck the "hidden political agenda" is that the authors warned us about.james gaultehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537303135780186926noreply@blogger.com