Résumés
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- Contexte
- Exemples
- Méthodes
- Actions
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Background
- Don’t be too certain
- Doctors talk about guesswork in prescribing
- Anedotes are anecdotes
- We do things because…
- From person to patient
- Stepwise progress doesn’t hit the headlines
- Mistaking the cure
- Believing is seeing
- Synthesizing information from research
- Marketing-based medicine
- Science is cumulative, but scientists don’t accumulate evidence scientifically
- Who says medical research is bad for your health?
- Rethinking informed consent
- Doctors and drug companies
- All it takes is to find the gene
- Patients’ choice: David and Goliath
Examples
- A tragic epidemic of blindness in babies
- On being sucked into a maelstrom
- Who has diabetes?
- No wonder she was confused
- The classical (Halstead) radical mastectomy
- Overdiagnosing prostate cancer
- Discoverer of PSA speaks out
- Selling screening
- The Screening Circus
- Doctors talk about guesswork in prescribing
- Could checking the evidence first have prevented a death?
- Academic nicety – or sensible choice?
- My experience of Magpie
- Impact of “me-too” drugs in Canada
- Dodgy, devious and duped?
- Psoriasis patients poorly served by research
- Lay people help to rethink AIDS
Methods
- Drastic treatment is not always the best
- Random allocation – a simple explanation
- The struggle for unbiased evidence
- Don’t assume early detection is worthwhile
- Don’t play poker with your genes
- Facing up to uncertainties: a matter of life and death
- Addressing uncertainty is professional
- Can patients cope with uncertainty?
- What does “statistically significant” mean?
- Why did you start?
- The importance of systematic reviews
- Biased ethics
- Pester power and new drugs
- Shared decision-making
- Don’t be fooled by eye-catching statistics
Action
- The Yellow Card Scheme
- Instructions to authors to put research in context by the editors of the medical journal The Lancet
- In an ideal world
- A commonsense approach to informed consent in good medical practice
- What research regulation should do
- A key partnership
- Involving citizens to improve healthcare