The idea of evidence-based medicine is to find symptom clusters and then test which interventions improve those without focusing on root causes. The idea that psychiatrists are just believing in the straw theory of neurotransmitter imbalance when they give drugs to treat depression isn’t really matching of that profession operates. It rather focuses on giving out drugs because of their effect in clinical studies.
Evidence-based medicine rests on the idea that you don’t just give patients drugs because of theoretical reasoning about root causes. I do think that it’s worthwhile to question dogma from time to time including that of evidence-based medicine, but I don’t think that this post really engages with the status quo’s reasons for doing medicine the way it’s currently done.
The idea of evidence-based medicine is to find symptom clusters and then test which interventions improve those without focusing on root causes. The idea that psychiatrists are just believing in the straw theory of neurotransmitter imbalance when they give drugs to treat depression isn’t really matching of that profession operates. It rather focuses on giving out drugs because of their effect in clinical studies.
Evidence-based medicine rests on the idea that you don’t just give patients drugs because of theoretical reasoning about root causes. I do think that it’s worthwhile to question dogma from time to time including that of evidence-based medicine, but I don’t think that this post really engages with the status quo’s reasons for doing medicine the way it’s currently done.