Towards evidence-based medicine for paediatricians

Back in the mists of preclinical training, I used to believe that disease states arose through disordered bodies. That illness was a disturbance of anatomy and physiology, and that by understanding the basics of normal, we could derive the pathological, and so predict the disorder and define the therapy. Then I learnt of the influence of the mind, and how our way of thinking could lead to altered interpretations and that disease states were a function of how we understood the world, our bodies, to be. I later discovered that it was society that created ill health, through inequality, housing and the pursuit of profit, literally creating illnesses because a drug could then be sold. I bought the idea that by understanding good clinical research and applying it to our patients, we would make sure we got the best outcomes. Until the day arrived when I realised that the trousers...

from Archives of Disease in Childhood current issue http://ift.tt/2pvNnQT