Everybody with an interest in healthcare should read this. (That's all of us, btw). There is so much wrong here. > Finance trumps patients at every level – UK healthcare needs an inquiry - Guardian Healthcare Professionals Networkhttps://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2017/nov/21/finance-trumps-patients-uk-healthcare-needs-inquiry?CMP=ema-1700&CMP= …
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>> "When the audience [inc healthcare professionals] was asked to guess what his risk of death was from stopping the pill [statin] for 2 weeks, the first response was 25%. There were gasps when I revealed it was actually between zero and one in 10,000" Errr...
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"One study revealed 70% of those [healthcare professionals] on a training programme failed a simple test on their understanding of evidence-based medicine" Oh dear...
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>>"But the reliability of research findings published in medical journals must also be questioned... only 7% of more than 60,000 clinical studies analysed passed criteria of being high quality and clinically relevant to patients." This isn't getting any better.
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>> ...and I've not even got to the bit where a single physician's fraudulent work on beta blockers influenced European guidelines, causing an estimated 800,000 deaths over 8 years!
All in all, quite a piece, @DrAseemMalhotra!
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