Too much medicine, too little understanding
By Jammi N Rao
India and Indians are enamoured of high-technology healthcare. You haven't truly arrived unless you possess an iPhone, have had a foreign holiday and an MRI scan. But while health technology has reached India, another quiet revolution in how we understand and use clinical science appears to have passed us by. This is the science of clinical epidemiology and its offshoots, Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and the democratisation of medicine.
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