In last week's post, I promised an explanation why many screening and medical treatments offer so little benefit to individual patients. If you invest the time to digest last week's post and the post before you now, then you will be equipped with new understanding that will enable you to make much better medical decisions. In accordance with this blog's mission, this is truly a 'peek behind the curtain'. I grant you that these 2 posts are a little wonky, but try to stay focused. Here is the main reason that ordinary people – and even some medical personnel – become confused on this issue. Studies that assess screening tests and medical treatments are often performed on very large groups of patients. The reason for this is that smaller studies, for reasons I cannot fully explain here, are simply not felt to be sufficiently reliable. This is why the Food and Drug Administration would never grant approval of a new medicine based on favorable resu
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