[HSF] My! Oh, My!

[Tea Acuff]

Listening to these threads on aprotonin, Factor VII, and hybrid ORs begs the question: why so much diversity of opinion if we are looking at that same "flat" world out there with the same universal standards of evidence that are even classified for us (eg IA, IIc , etc)? The world is flat now is it not? We all have access to the same clear and standardized evidence, right? We all look at the same problems, right?

I have read a few novel twists in these discussions: "american medical evidence" and "convenience" drugs. As is my wont, I usually twist the question and reexamine it. What is then "unamerican evidence"? What drug exactly is an inconvenient drug, or what would be the purpose of using such a drug?

But as to my original question, we could answer every medical and especially every American medical question with a (Chomsky type) economic answer. Does not anyone believe that there is somewhere in our medical practice some answers that do not depend on economics and fundamentally are biologic or medical in their answers, if you will, in their nature? What then would be that nature, and why might the evidence not be clear using our usual methods of asking the question? Not surprisingly I have at least a couple of ways of thinking about this that seem to me useful. What about you?

On the other hand the FDA has decided so why bother to think about it at all?

tea