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DESCRIPTION:[b] GUEST LECTURE: Ian Harris\, professor of Orthopaedic Surge
 ry at the University of New South Wales\, Australia\, and author of "Surg
 ery\, the Ultimate Placebo" [/b] [nl] [nl]\n\nIan Harris is a practicing 
 orthopedic surgeon and academic based in Sydney\, Australia. He is a Prof
 essor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of New South Wales and Hon
 orary Professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Sydne
 y. He has published over 350 peer-reviewed articles and achieved approxim
 ately AUD50M in grant funding. His research interests are clinical in nat
 ure and are focussed on the effectiveness of surgical interventions using
  randomised trials and registry and cohort studies. He has also written t
 wo popular books: "Surgery\, the Ultimate Placebo" (2016) and "Hippocrasy
 \, How Doctors Are Betraying Their Oath" (2021). [nl][nl]\n\n\n[b] Abstra
 ct [/b] [nl] \nThe scientific support of medical practice is weaker than 
 commonly supposed. The lack of evidence\, and poor quality of existing ev
 idence has led to practitioners consistently overestimating the benefits 
 and underestimating the harms of the interventions they prescribe. This b
 ias\, and the system under which medicine is conducted (in which healthca
 re turnover is prioritised\, rather than health) combine to produce too m
 uch medicine. Consequently\, it has been estimated that 1/3 of all health
  care is low value and a further 10% is harmful. [nl][nl]\n\nA higher sta
 ndard of scientific evaluation of health care interventions is required. 
 In surgery for example\, most procedures are only supported by observatio
 nal evidence and tradition. More recently\, higher quality trials have sh
 own many common procedures to be ineffective. Surgical placebo trials are
  now being performed and they extend the maxim that the more rigorously a
  procedure is evaluated\, the less effective it appears. \n[nl][nl]\nFor 
 too long\, medical practices\, particularly surgery\, have persisted with
 out supporting evidence\, or with evidence of ineffectiveness. Medicine r
 equires the same scientific rigour applicable to other areas of scientifi
 c endeavour. [nl][nl]\n\nThe lecture will take place in the Danish Instit
 ute for Advanced Study\, DIAS' auditorium\, Campus Odense\, and is open t
 o everyone. [nl][nl]\n\nThe lecture will be live-streamed on DIAS' Youtub
 e Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuUBO2_ERXDj9apfMpPBVLw
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LOCATION:Syddansk Universitet\, Fioniavej 34\, 5230\, Odense M
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SUMMARY:Too much medicine and placebos in surgery
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