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"How medicine is broken, and how we can fix it" (BMJ editorial by Goldacre & Heneghan)

Dolphin

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Full text of this has been posted here: http://pharmagossip.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/ben-goldacre-writes-in-bmj-how-medicine.html

How medicine is broken, and how we can fix it

The chief medical officer’ s review on statins and oseltamivir may look for answers in the wrong
places

Ben Goldacre senior clinical research fellow, Carl Heneghan professor of evidence based medicine
Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
 

Roy S

former DC ME/CFS lobbyist
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@Dolphin
Thanks. Do you know what this letter is?

"Last week there was extensive news coverage of a leaked letter written by the chief medical officer to the Academy of Medical Sciences."
 

Dolphin

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