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Lies, Damned Lies and Medical Science

October 16, 2010 By doulamaddie Leave a Comment

One man’s pursuit of evidence-based medicine. Another Greek hero.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/8269

It’s a great read – here’s the first section to whet your appetites.

In 2001, rumors were circulating in Greek hospitals that surgery residents, eager to rack up scalpel time, were falsely diagnosing hapless Albanian immigrants with appendicitis. At the University of Ioannina medical school’s teaching hospital, a newly minted doctor named Athina Tatsioni was discussing the rumors with colleagues when a professor who had overheard asked her if she’d like to try to prove whether they were true—he seemed to be almost daring her. She accepted the challenge and, with the professor’s and other colleagues’ help, eventually produced a formal study showing that, for whatever reason, the appendices removed from patients with Albanian names in six Greek hospitals were more than three times as likely to be perfectly healthy as those removed from patients with Greek names.

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