Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises

Ray Moynihan

doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7545.859-a

Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises

Ray Moynihan^*

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Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare

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Abstract

Imagine, if you will, a long line running from left to right, from one extreme to the other. The pole at the left hand end of the continuum represents a pathological obsession with new health technologies, and at the right hand end an all-consuming cynical rejection of the value of medical advances. Somewhere in the middle is the healthy scepticism we all strive for, yet find so elusive, particularly when we or our loved ones fall ill

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	859-859
Number of pages	1
Journal	BMJ
Volume	332
Issue number	7545
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.332.7545.859-a
Publication status	Published - 6 Apr 2006

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