Tag: Rafael Campo
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Evidence-based medicine vs. the power of the anecdote
Personal experience is how we learn things, so individual anecdotes have enduring power in how we humans understand and explain things. I suppose we should not be surprised by this. After all, an anecdote is a story, and humans are story-tellers by nature. These days physicians are exhorted to use only the hardest of hard…
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Evidence-based medicine versus the power of the anecdote
I’ve been doing some research for my next book, which is about how to use the medical literature to make sense of the often sensational medical headlines. One issue I’ve been thinking about quite a bit is the enduring power of the anecdote in how we humans understand and explain things. I suppose we should…