Amazing Things Happen When You Pull Individual

Amazing Things Happen When You Pull Individual Pieces Of Information Together Into Larger Linked Datasets: Meaning Emerges, As You Produce Facts From Figures.

Doctors And Patients Need As Much Data As Possible To Make An Informed Decision About What Treatment Is Best.

Science Has Authority Not Because Of White Coats Or Titles, But Because Of Precision And Transparency: You Explain Your Theory, Set Out Your Evidence, And Reference The Studies That Support Your Case.

In The Past, [medicalization]has Been Portrayed As Something That Doctors Inflict On A Passive And Un-suspecting World - An Expansion Of The Medical Empire. But In Reality, It Seems That These Reductionist Bio-medical Stories Can Appeal To Us All, Because Complex Problems Often Have Depressingly-complex Causes, And The Solutions Can Be Taxing, And Unsatisfactory.

If You Put Me In Charge Of The Medical Research Budget, I Would Cancel All Primary Research, I Would Cancel All New Trials, For Just One Year, And I Would Spend The Money Exclusively On Making Sure That We Make The Best Possible Use Of The Clinical Evidence That We Already Have.