Reducing Corporate Interests, Failed Regulation, And Commercialization of Academia

The British Medical Journal has recently published an opinion paper on "Illusion of Evidence based Medicine" [1]. This paper describes a global problem, the dimension of which only be-comes apparent through the risks that arise as a result of this illusion. The resulting problem may be the three dimensions of “disbalanced health-care (dbhc)”. (a) The health problems of the patients are inadequately solved. (b) Neither the monetary expenditure on health (c) nor the non-monetary burdens to be accepted on individual patients and society are outweighed by the added health and social value of the services provided.