An excellent article discussing a frequent theme, the risks that evidence based medicine poses to humanistic medicine. Whilst this might be a book review, there’s a depth to his analysis.
Diagnosis: What Doctors Are Missing – The New York Review of Books.
This paper from the BMJ is an eloquent explanation of the risks of stopping medical trials early.
(BTW I reckon this is exactly the sort of paper the BMJ ought to publish, the sort of thing all doctors are likely to be interested in)
An interesting article in the Economist which discusses a recent study suggesting that published research has a higher probability of being wrong. This is a specialised application of the economic theory that winners of auctions are likely to have paid over the odds (the majority of bids are at or about true value, therefore the winner is likely to have overpaid). Perhaps the winning bids in the publication battle have also paid too much?
Harvester 