Great article Robyn. It also reminds me of the quote,
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Doctors have no incentive in understanding anything that might contradict what their pharma funded education has taught them, there is also a fair amount of hubris involved, I know better than you, I don't need to listen to you.
Sep 30, 2022·edited Sep 30, 2022Liked by Robyn Chuter
Surprise surprise - surely big pharma is not corrupting the research and putting profits before patients again ! At least Covid woke us up to the fact that medical research is terribly corrupted by money and should be viewed with great skepticism.
1st question to ask - who paid for the research ? Of course, just because it was an 'independent' funding source now means nothing, given that they are run by big pharma lackeys who have conflicts of interest.
Lately, I found that even physiotherapy standard practices are influenced by vested interests who put profits before patients.... Being advised to follow the standard model of care used by nearly all physios i.e. Treating a (non-inflammatory) tendonosis condition as if it was tendonitis (inflammatory) using ice, compression, anti-inflammatory drugs and then when that doesn't work, cortisone injections that harm the tendons and ligaments, would have sent me eventually to a surgeon. if I had been silly enough to listen any longer. What did work was heat, deep massage and stretches. NO money in that for big pharma, so it gets silenced and the harmful treatment gets promoted.
Sep 29, 2022·edited Sep 29, 2022Liked by Robyn Chuter
When I saw the teaser: 99.5% of doctors can't WHAT?, I thought perhaps it might be a post on how many doctors couldn't make or even attempt to make a diagnosis based on symptomatic presentation.
I also remembered a news item from around 20 years ago, which stated (and I think the figure was 99%; it certainly had a 9 in front of it) that, whatever the figure, a whopping amount of doctors didn't know the protocols to follow in the event a patient had a heart attack in their waiting room.
I've got my own view on doctors and probability which, paraphrasing Keynes, states that in the long run we're all dead; but if you hang about with doctors, in all probabilty, you'll be dead sooner rather than later.
It was in 1976 that a medical professional uni employed friend explained to a surprised me that medicine IS maths. That being so, how could this possibly happen?
Probability equations are "racist, sexist, and bigoted!"
Great article Robyn. It also reminds me of the quote,
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Doctors have no incentive in understanding anything that might contradict what their pharma funded education has taught them, there is also a fair amount of hubris involved, I know better than you, I don't need to listen to you.
Probability is basic maths. The real challenge is to make doctors understand sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values.
Surprise surprise - surely big pharma is not corrupting the research and putting profits before patients again ! At least Covid woke us up to the fact that medical research is terribly corrupted by money and should be viewed with great skepticism.
1st question to ask - who paid for the research ? Of course, just because it was an 'independent' funding source now means nothing, given that they are run by big pharma lackeys who have conflicts of interest.
Lately, I found that even physiotherapy standard practices are influenced by vested interests who put profits before patients.... Being advised to follow the standard model of care used by nearly all physios i.e. Treating a (non-inflammatory) tendonosis condition as if it was tendonitis (inflammatory) using ice, compression, anti-inflammatory drugs and then when that doesn't work, cortisone injections that harm the tendons and ligaments, would have sent me eventually to a surgeon. if I had been silly enough to listen any longer. What did work was heat, deep massage and stretches. NO money in that for big pharma, so it gets silenced and the harmful treatment gets promoted.
When I saw the teaser: 99.5% of doctors can't WHAT?, I thought perhaps it might be a post on how many doctors couldn't make or even attempt to make a diagnosis based on symptomatic presentation.
I also remembered a news item from around 20 years ago, which stated (and I think the figure was 99%; it certainly had a 9 in front of it) that, whatever the figure, a whopping amount of doctors didn't know the protocols to follow in the event a patient had a heart attack in their waiting room.
I've got my own view on doctors and probability which, paraphrasing Keynes, states that in the long run we're all dead; but if you hang about with doctors, in all probabilty, you'll be dead sooner rather than later.
It was in 1976 that a medical professional uni employed friend explained to a surprised me that medicine IS maths. That being so, how could this possibly happen?