Medical bias and how it impacts the treatment you receive

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Clinical guidelines are theoretically very useful, gathering leading experts to help front-line clinicians care for patients. Experts often spend decades doing research into a single clinical problem. Clinicians, on the other hand deal with a multitude of problems. A general practitioner may deal with cancer, heart disease, and obstetrical problems all in the space of one hour. So guidelines should serve to document ‘best practices’ and become a standard of care. Good guidelines identify and disseminate the most scientifically sound advice available. Thus it is extremely important to monitor the integrity of the guidelines. Financial conflicts of interest (COI) among authors and sponsors of guidelines have the potential to turn these guidelines into nothing more than marketing tools for drugs and other devices. It is already well known these financial COI are extremely common among doctors and considered both widespread and acceptable. Biased guidelines harm patients by...
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