‘I was a professor when I sat my GP exams’: Evidence-based medicine star Professor Paul Glasziou retires
Professor Glasziou has watched the emergence of evidence-based medicine from since before the term was even invented.
When Professor Paul Glasziou first went through medical training in the late ’70s, doctors were taught based on understanding the disease process and what seemed like a good idea coupled with doctors’ own experiences.
It did not mean treatments were bad, but factors such as the placebo effect were uncontrolled.
