Questioning Medicine

They say every dog has its day and IT think every drug has its place Anyone who says ‘that drug is bad’ or that test is bad or that anything is bad is just being closed minded or not aware of the evidence because evidence and medicine comes down to numbers.The real statement should be I don’t think that drug is beneficial enough for the harm. However that is an opinion statement, it is what you think and that is when shared decision making comes into play because maybe your patient does think it is beneficialNo more clearly see than in this viewpoint in Jama titled Balancing the Risks and Benefits of Benzodiazepineshttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2775180?guestAccessKey=fe7dd94f-653f-4da0-ad1f-21fb8c60e420&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jama&utm_content=olf&utm_term=010821 Which talks about the risk and benefits of benzos. A drug that I often here so many providers dis on with no real evidence to back it up—how do I know there is no real