Evidence-based medicine is not enough

Evidence-based medicine is not enough
"We need as physicians in different roles to ask ourselves about what we can and what we will and we must enter into dialogue with people, so the expectations are as a backdrop for the meeting between the doctor and patient can become fairly clear". Writes Knud Jacobsen, general practitioner on the Faroe Islands. He believes that the much debate, there is in these years around health care, primarily concerns the expectations of doctors. The highly scientifically oriented wing, who talk about "evidence-based" medicine, where everything has to be backed up by statistical science, have implications, which I certainly do not want to go, he writes. We can't professionalize ourselves out of the human obligation towards each other.