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For many doctors, the term "evidence based medicine" smacks of self-righteousness, for others, the present writer included, there is concern about its misuse by politicians and others who hold the purse strings. Whatever your perspective, do read Sung’s leading article on acupuncture. Evidence based medicine it is not—and he tells us why. Yet it does seem to me inherently unlikely that this treatment would have been around for 2,500 years if it was just quackery. China 1: EBM 0.
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It is difficult to recall any gastrointestinal condition that has given rise to as much controversy as the management of Barrett’s oesophagus is doing just now. One particular problem is what the clinician should do with the information he receives from the pathologist. The situation is not helped by the fact that consensus in interpreting biopsies often remains elusive. Neither clinicians not pathologists (let alone,
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