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My answer is education. Education in scientific and critical thinking. That's all. We should learn to be cautious sometimes and we should all be able to follow scientific debates. It's not about beeing actual scientists.
I don't want us to be scientists. It's a completely different kind of work. What I want us to be is more aware of what science is and how the scientific world works. We should be trained to be cautious about the facts, we learn. A lot of them will stay facts, but some of the theories we learned in med school will be turned on their heads in our lifetime. A lot of doctors have never thought about the fact, that psychosomatics has indeed a very hard time to prove its main concept and fails at a very basic level to do so. It cannot disprove it's own hypotheses.
This is my thinking as well. I don't have a problem with physicians not being scientists. I think it's more important that they have intelligence, knowledge, vast clinical experience, and skill in the art applying the limited knowledge that exists in medicine. I do, however, have a problem with physicians being unable to use basic scientific and critical thinking -- logic, statistics, and so on.
Critical thinking should be a part of the curriculum. It should be integrated into every course, not taught as a one semester class. I know it can be done. We do it in engineering even at the undergraduate level. It shouldn't be hard to teach to the older, more educated medical students. Of course, you'd have to find medical school profs who know enough critical thinking to integrate it into their courses rather than teaching prejudiced, opinion-based dogma. (Yes, I'm looking at you Dr Forbes).
I also have a problem with physicians claiming to be scientific authorities when they don't have scientific training. Too often physicians try to use that card to intimidate patients into not expressing their concerns -- the "I'm smarter than you, so shut up" ploy. It may work on the average patient (unfortunately), but it makes the physician look stupid and dishonest to any trained scientist. Stupid and dishonest is not what I want to see in someone responsible for my medical care. I can work with someone who says, "I don't know, let me connect you with someone who might." l can't work with someone I know is lying to me.