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by Raineer 1543 days ago
"This is why things like 'evidence based' medicine is so dangerous -- we don't have evidence for the vast majority of impactful conditions, simply ignoring patients with these conditions is not a workable solution."

Citation needed.

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What kind of citation are your looking for? It's just obvious to anyone who works in the medical field. There are only evidence based treatment guidelines for a minority of conditions, and those often don't account for individual variations between real patients. So physicians often have to resort to trial and error in order to find an effective treatment.