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EBM is by now the established way to conduct medical research and practice, sometimes more, sometimes less successful and always dependent on the user, both the physician and the patient. And although a lot of the criticism levelled at EBM can be refuted or EBM changed in a way that it is still true to its principles and still patient friendly, many patients are looking for alternatives to EBM and medicine in general. They are either dissatisfied by the way there are treated in hospitals and by conventional GPs, or they are slightly afraid of the treatments which can have side effects and whose ingredients lists contain long and hard-to-understand words.
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Schulte, MC. (2020). Homeopathy — a case in point why EBM is so important — or, “the plural of anecdote is not data.”. In: Evidence-Based Medicine - A Paradigm Ready To Be Challenged?. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05703-7_5
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