Evidence-Based Medical Practices

Since there are numerous types of illnesses, there are also different kinds medical treatments where some are more effective for one patient but which patient but many not work for another one. According to Martin (2008), it is easy to exploit a patient when they are in a vulnerable state because the patient is more willing to try anything. When a patient is in a state of vulnerability, it is important for the doctor to steer the patient to the right direction of treatment. He mentions how Jason Vale was sentenced to serve sixty-three months in prison and three years of supervised release for advertising and selling a medicine called Laetrile to cancer patients. Martin mentions how, “There is no scientific evidence that Laetrile offers anything but false hope for cancer …show more content…
Labrie explains that the “ Two cases were studied in effort […] maintain a balance between dialectal reasonableness and rhetorical effectiveness, as well as an equilibrium between patient participation and evidence-based medicine” (p.109). Research by Prasad and Cifu (2012) also discusses antibiotics as a form of treatment. They mention a drug named atenolol that debuted in 1976. Both of them express concerns about how “ Although we are in the third decade of ‘evidence-based medicine’, we continue to introduce practices well before we have the data to support their use” ( p.73) they believe that patients need to listen to the doctor recommendations because often the quick option can bring more and bigger problems than before. Theses quick option can result in being more expensive than a treatment that a doctor is more certain that can work for a patient. Theses kinds of antibiotics can be more expensive because if they do work the effectiveness of the drug can be temporary. If results are temporary the patient, also becoming a buyer, will have to purchase more of the antibiotic to be able to feel