Background

These thumbnails provide important background knowledge that will help you to understand the reasons why testing treatments matters.

Here are the background thumbnails we have amassed so far:

• 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

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