Abstract
Proponents of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) argue that EBM’s approach to
medicine promotes good clinical decisions while it escapes adverse issues such as
implicit bias. However, EBM approaches the causation of diseases from a
homogenous standpoint; that is, EBM overgeneralises evidence and the
intervention measures it provides. As a result, proponents of Patient-Centred Care
(PCC) allude that the strictness of EBM towards evidence impairs it from
considering case-by-case treatment of patients but a generalised method of
intervention. Given this problem, I argue that EBM cannot be considered a medical
approach to practising medicine and conducting medical research that is in the best
interest of individual patients, especially patients that prefer alternative
interventions other than the methods of EBM. I conclude by drawing from the best
features of EBM and PCC to create an alternative that accommodates the interests
of both EBM and PCC patients.
Keywords: Medicine; Patient’s Interest; Medical Diagnosis; Diseases; EvidenceBased Medicine.