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“There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others.”

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In general, drug companies are reasonably good at developing new treatments, and there's also a lot of good in the industry.

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Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

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“Aside from all this, for several of the most important and enduring problems in medicine, we have no idea what the best treatment is,…

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And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll still be…

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I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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“Today, scientists and doctors find themselves outnumbered and outgunned by vast armies of individuals who feel entitled to pass judgment on matters of evidence—an…

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I hope that you will be asked to participate in a trial at some stage in your disease

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Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work.…

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“The American Academy of Pediatrics officially supports breastfeeding, but receives about half a million dollars from Ross, manufacturers of Similac infant formula.”

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“More than that, these adverts sell a dubious world view. They sell the idea that science is not about the delicate relationship between evidence…

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