A Duty Of Care .. A response to MacDoctor's Egotism.

MacDoctor struck a nerve.

... until such time as medical practitioners are trained in research methodology and statistics and have the ability to critically assay research ... and read the stuff prior to 'selling' it as a 'treatment of choice' ... and enable and demand independent (not drug company) research with control groups prior to the widespread implementation of treatments - rather than claim that such research cannot occur because it involves with holding a 'treatment of choice' and as such is unethical, then the moral high ground you purport to inhabit is simply 'puffery.'

Perhaps, 'spare the rod and medicate the child' (the 'educational drugs'), are a good example of this.

There are so many medical treatments for which the underlying research does not stand up to rigorous scrutiny, cost benefit analyses (i.e. benefit versus harm) are more often than not lacking.

How would most medical practitioners know whether they were causing harm or not?
Certainly studies looking at reliability of diagnoses have not revealed figures worthy of celebration, and this without considering validity.

Is this situation of greater concern than that which you describe?
I would have thought so.

Maori crime rate down to early childhood maltreatment

Maori crime rate down to early childhood maltreatment!

Really?