Enough with the gratuitous spinal steroid injections already (Member Post) [14m]

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Ineffective treatments are often prescribed long after being spanked by science. Alternative medicine famously never gives up on anything, no matter how grim the evidence. Medicine usually does away with obsolete ideas, but it can be painfully slow, even when the evidence is strong. Doctors may carry on prescribing clearly bad medicine for many years after medical guidelines start discouraging it.…

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