Believing in Treatments That Don’t Work
As Washington debates health care reform, emergency room physician Dr. David H. Newman explores how medical ideology often gets in the way of evidence-based medicine
Cough syrup doesn’t work. Antibiotics for ear infections don’t work. Back surgeries don’t work. Osteoarthritis of the knee doesn’t get fixed with an operation. This article examines these research-based facts that fly in the face of what “should” work.