Nobody pretends medicine is easy, but if there's one thing we ought to be able to rely on, it's that the doctors looking out for us are doing more than playing hunches. We take certain medicines because they work, right? We go into the operating room for certain procedures because they'll make us well, don't we?
Well, maybe. More and more, however, doctors are making the unnerving case that no matter how reliable a drug or other treatment appears to be, too often there's simply little hard evidence that it would make a long-term difference in a person's quality of life...
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