Clinical Experience and Quality of Health Care

  1. Martin A. Samuels, MD; and
  2. Allan H. Ropper, MD
  1. From Brigham and Women's Hospital and Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston, MA.

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    Choudhry and colleagues' paper may be technically flawed, but more important, in our view it is potentially destructive (1). Behind the mask of “evidence-based medicine,” the authors reviewed 59 articles, selected by their own peculiar process from hundreds of potential papers relevant to the subject. They …

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