BLOGSCAN - Evidence? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Evidence

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Tue, 07/01/2008 - 14:46

The New York Times recently reported on the rush to use advanced CT scans for cardiologic diagnosis, in the absence of much evidence that this expensive technology works.

Merrill Goozner on
GoozNews , and Matthew Holt on the Health Care Blog offered some pithy comments.

My jaw dropped at this quote in the Times article:

It's incumbent on the community to dispense...


 

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