Episode 34: Evidence-Based Medicine - Are Doctors following the best data? With Prof. Rachelle Buchbinder & Prof. Ian Harris

Mouthing Off With Dr Lewis Ehrlich

In this episode I sit down with Professor Rachelle Buchbinder and Professor Ian Harris. They have co-authored the book Hippocrasy: How Doctors are Betraying their Oath. Using the Hippocratic Oath as a framework they discuss themes such as doctors and health professionals using inadequate research to drive their practice, conflicts of interest in research, the need for more training on how to conduct and read research in medical school, medical errors, misdiagnosis, over-treatment, why old habits are hard to shift, whilst also offering solutions to these problems.