Oh no not another article about evidence-based medicine (EBM)! Half of you are thinking ‘it's marvellous and tells you exactly the best way of managing your patients’. The other half if you have read this far will be thinking ‘not more EBM — yet again it's someone trying to replace common sense and experience’.
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