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From the Editors’ Desk: Truth Rules, or the Upside of Bureaucracy

From the Editors’ Desk: Truth Rules, or the Upside of Bureaucracy JGIM FROM THE EDITORS’ DESK Steven M. Asch, MD, MPH Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Healthcare System and Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford, CA, USA. J Gen Intern Med 33(7):979 late 1980s, and we still deal with the fallout today. The lay DOI: 10.1007/s11606-018-4453-3 press’ desire for counternarratives even when the evidence © Society of General Internal Medicine (This is a U.S. Government work supports only one side fuels this problem. There is no need and not under copyright protection in the US; foreign copyright protection may apply) 2018 to give equal coverage to a publicity-seeking holistic cardiol- ogist and the former CDC director after a measles outbreak highlights vaccine underuse. So pity the petty bureaucrat, and support the upside of bureaucracy. As clinicians, we must demand our government respect expertise and evidence in crafting the policies that ho among us has not lamented the tyranny of the petty affect our patients. As scientists, we must demand strict con- bureaucrat? The rules governing a general internist’s flict of interest rules and the most neutral analyses for life, from clinical documentation to hiring to research regula- policymakers. As teachers (and yes, editors), we must ensure tion, often seem http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of General Internal Medicine Springer Journals

From the Editors’ Desk: Truth Rules, or the Upside of Bureaucracy

Asch, Steven
Journal of General Internal Medicine , Volume 33 (7) – May 7, 2018
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From the Editors’ Desk: Truth Rules, or the Upside of Bureaucracy

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JGIM FROM THE EDITORS’ DESK Steven M. Asch, MD, MPH Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Healthcare System and Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford, CA, USA. J Gen Intern Med 33(7):979 late 1980s, and we still deal with the fallout today. The lay DOI: 10.1007/s11606-018-4453-3 press’ desire for counternarratives even when the evidence © Society of General Internal Medicine (This is a U.S. Government work supports only one side fuels this problem. There is no need...
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Copyright © 2018 by Society of General Internal Medicine (This is a U.S. Government work and not under copyright protection in the US; foreign copyright protection may apply)
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Medicine & Public Health; Internal Medicine
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10.1007/s11606-018-4453-3
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JGIM FROM THE EDITORS’ DESK Steven M. Asch, MD, MPH Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Healthcare System and Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford, CA, USA. J Gen Intern Med 33(7):979 late 1980s, and we still deal with the fallout today. The lay DOI: 10.1007/s11606-018-4453-3 press’ desire for counternarratives even when the evidence © Society of General Internal Medicine (This is a U.S. Government work supports only one side fuels this problem. There is no need and not under copyright protection in the US; foreign copyright protection may apply) 2018 to give equal coverage to a publicity-seeking holistic cardiol- ogist and the former CDC director after a measles outbreak highlights vaccine underuse. So pity the petty bureaucrat, and support the upside of bureaucracy. As clinicians, we must demand our government respect expertise and evidence in crafting the policies that ho among us has not lamented the tyranny of the petty affect our patients. As scientists, we must demand strict con- bureaucrat? The rules governing a general internist’s flict of interest rules and the most neutral analyses for life, from clinical documentation to hiring to research regula- policymakers. As teachers (and yes, editors), we must ensure tion, often seem

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