At 3:27 PM -0500 12/5/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paul - I am wondering on what you base your confidence in the practice of medicine? . . . that practice is empirically safe and effective? . . that sanctions are applied when these practices are deviated from without adequate support?
On the fact that there is a medical literature based on experimental research which distinguishes between practices which are safe and effective and those which are not.
Physicians who do things that depart from accepted medical practice do so at the risk of their licenses. "Clinical intuition" is not an adequate defense in a malpractice suit.
This system is not perfect, admittedly, but it at least has forced blatant quacks out of medicine and into pseudo-medical practices such as chiropractic.
At this point in time, one has more confidence that a medical practice is based on sound data than a psychological practice.
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"No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people." -H. L. Mencken
* PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Psychology Dept Minnesota State University * * 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001 ph 507-389-6217 * * http://www.mnsu.edu/dept/psych/welcome.html *
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