As Kant proves to us: pure theoretical reason is necessarily based only on sensory motor data AND IS SUBORDINATE to practical reason that must be obedient to the moral law. Doctors and their agents cannot serve their lust for money and at the same time truely and honestly care for their patients. It will always be this choice: Love of our life togeher as community or lust for money, power and status. Without the type of information that David provides we remain powerless to protect our medical community. Thanks for the comment. I know of nothing more complicated in medicine than the portfolio of studies used to justify prescribing anticoagulant drugs to prevent or treat thrombotic events. I think that most advocates of anticoagulants for venous thromboembolism have found the few truly relevant trials amid a morass of irrelevant data. Until I happened to find those trials, I routinely prescribed anticoagulants for venous thromboembolism because I believed that they benefited patients. I don’t fault the vast majority of the doctors that prescribe these drugs in good faith. The challenge is to get the information to doctors that confidence in anticoagulants for venous thromboembolism and cerebral venous thrombosis is not justified.
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Great! Loved ‘Grand Bargains’ and want to carve out time to do a book review of it. Meanwhile, tho I thought it would be too detailed and thus a bit intimidating to read, I have not been able to put it down!
Eager to be working together. You are right on!
Frances