<div dir="auto">Sometime around twenty years ago I was approached by a company that was a spinoff of Kaiser-Permanente. They have access to decades of medical records about millions of patients. Their goal was to determine how much of medical advice given to patients is evidence-based versus traditional rule-based responses to patient symptoms and complaints. Their preliminary analysis was that about 25% was evidence-based. I asked my primary care provider what he thought and he wasn't surprised.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 29, 2021, 4:52 PM Marcus Daniels <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">By that definition most of medicine is bullshit.<br>
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On 4/29/21 3:21 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:<br>
> Jon,<br>
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> I am sorry I disappointed you. My understanding of object relations theory is like swiss cheese and I chose not to provide an inadequate response by humming a few bars. By the way, object-relations theory provides a non-Oedipal alternative to your interpretation as explained by the Wikipedia article. I became the withholding bad object to you. I hope you will be able to integrate that with the good object I have been at times.<br>
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> Good for Glen.<br>
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> I am not a practitioner of psychoanalytic theory but it may not be for you. As for psychoanalytic /treatment, /see the last paragraph of the Wikipedia article.<br>
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> Warmly,<br>
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> Frank<br>
> <br>
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 4:09 PM jon zingale <<a href="mailto:jonzingale@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">jonzingale@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jonzingale@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">jonzingale@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Frank,<br>
> <br>
> To some extent, your response is indicative of the psychoanalytic<br>
> ends I criticize, the mommy-daddy-me Oedipal construction. Rather than<br>
> pick up on the opportunity presented by the conversation to engage in an<br>
> act of creativity (contributing to a forum), you use your agency to make<br>
> an authoritative (daddy) appeal to an object away from yourself and your<br>
> agency (the Wikipedia article). This action strikes me as functionally<br>
> different than Glen's earlier reference, say. While Glen's appeal acts to<br>
> ground and facilitate a living discussion, yours aims to end one. I felt<br>
> that the question I asked was fair, to hum a few bars regarding a<br>
> connection you are making that perhaps could contribute. If this sort of<br>
> short-circuiting of concepts and conversation is what I can expect from<br>
> practitioners of psychoanalytic theory, well, maybe it's not for me.<br>
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