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The doctor’s advice and sleepless nights: what can you find in 5 minutes?

Dept of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, Mill Stream Surgery, Benson

Key Words: evidence-based medicine • sleep

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They have no physicians, but when a man is ill they lay him in the public square, and the passersby come up to him, and if they have ever had his disease themselves or have known anyone who has suffered from it, they give him advice, recommending to do whatever they found good in their own cases, or in the case known to them. And no-one is allowed to pass the sick man in silence without asking him what his ailment is.Herodotus 484–424 BC (Greek Historian)

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THE PROBLEM
While teaching medical undergraduates EBM one day, we digressed to discuss the advice they give and how this is perceived the nearer they are to becoming a doctor. Family members and friends were already seeking their counsel, and this led me to question my own advice. Next day in . . . [Full text of this article]