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Category: Trust and evidence · 7 posts
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Trust and evidenceSep 20, 2026· 2 min read· Editor In Chief
What evidence-based medicine means, and how to tell if your doctor practices it
The phrase gets used as a slogan by people who mean the opposite. The real definition, from the doctors who coined it, has three parts, and a clinician who honors all three is easy to recognize once you know what to look for.
#evidence-based medicine#guidelines#trust
Trust and evidenceSep 20, 2026· 2 min read· Editor In Chief
Why doctors need to be vetted, even the licensed ones
The license was designed for a world where a doctor's reach ended at the office door. Today a licensed physician can sell peptides to a million followers before lunch. Vetting is the checking that the license was never built to do.
#vetting#license#supplements#trust
Trust and evidenceSep 20, 2026· 2 min read· Editor In Chief
Why a vetted doctor directory matters more now than it ever has
The old way to find a doctor assumed you could trust the system to have filtered out the bad ones. That assumption is gone. What is left is a job someone has to do: check each clinician against the evidence, in public, and keep checking.
#vetting#trust#supplements#peptides
Trust and evidenceSep 20, 2026· 3 min read· Editor In Chief
Trust in doctors is at a 30-year low. Here is how to find one you can actually trust.
Gallup's rating of doctors' honesty fell from 77% in 2020 to 53% today, the lowest since the mid-1990s. The reasons are political, commercial, and personal. The fix is not more star ratings. It is checking the things that actually predict good care.
#trust#finding a doctor#reviews#vetting
Trust and evidenceSep 20, 2026· 2 min read· Editor In Chief
Doctor reviews versus doctor verification: why we do not publish star ratings
Most doctor directories run on reviews because reviews are free content. We publish none, because they measure the wrong thing and can be gamed by anyone. What we publish instead can be checked.
#reviews#vetting#trust
Trust and evidenceSep 20, 2026· 2 min read· Editor In Chief
Why clinical guidelines matter, and what "guideline-based care" means for you
A guideline is not a rule from on high. It is the written summary of every good trial on a question, graded by strength of evidence, by clinicians who treat that condition. Care that follows it is care that has been tested on people like you.
#guidelines#evidence-based medicine#cholesterol#diabetes
Trust and evidenceSep 20, 2026· 2 min read· Editor In Chief
Politics has walked into the exam room. Here is how to keep the science in it.
Confidence in the CDC and FDA has split along party lines and fallen overall. That leaves patients choosing between two kinds of noise. There is a third option: a clinician whose commitments are written down, checkable, and older than this news cycle.
#trust#guidelines#vaccines#public health