Brennen McKenzie's blog

The following is a post I contributed to the Science-Based Medicine blog that might be of interest to EBVMA members. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=6334

I was recently put in mind of an interesting and challenging puzzle in the philosophy of medical practice; the question of the tension between the role of health care providers as experts and the autonomy of patients of veterinary clients. I subsequently ran across an articulate and cogent discussion of this problem from the Annals of Internal Medicine,

Mark Crislip at Science-Based Medicine recently discussed Hill's Criteria of Causation, but after looking at Dr. Hill's original paper I felt obliged to examine the subject here as well because it is central to science-based medicine, and key in differentiating real medicine from quackery.
 

Very slick and exciting new website! Well done!

For those to whom I haven't already introduced myself, my name is Brennen McKenzie, and I'm a small animal veterinarian in private practice. I am also currently Chair of the Practitioner Committee here at the EBVMA. We are working on a couple of exciting projects, including taking a survey of practitioners regarding their awareness and attitudes about EBVM and populating the practitioner's area of this website with useful tools and information for implementing EBVM in day-to-day clinical practice.