As a group, doctors dislike ambiguity. We pride ourselves in the scientific girders of modern medicine and are most comfortable when we are dispensing medical care to our patients that comes from a double-blind clinical trial, that fits into a validated clinical-prediction rule. But very little of medicine falls into that absolute category.
As we take classes on Evidence Based Practice and do our own research, I’m often struck by how little (quality) evidence is out there for many physical therapy treatments. It turns out this is true in medicine also, as the medical writer Danielle Ofri points out.