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go to Green chef dot US slash Joe. How do doctors

decide on the best treatment for a patient ideally they'd rely on scientific evidence. Is that always the case?

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grady. Dr.

Vene Prasad is an oncologist, an expert on evidence-based medicine and medical reversals.

He's also taken a heart look at conflicts of interest in how they affect the practice of medicine.

Doctors are judges.

They're judges of medical evidence.

They're judges of the harms and the benefits. We don't think they are, but they really are.

And we need to hold them to the same standard we would hold anyone who's calling balls and strikes.

We'll also discuss the high cost of new cancer treatments.

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, who do you believe?

The experts or the evidence?

First, the news. In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,

ever since the physician's health study showed 30 years ago that low dose aspirin

could reduce the likelihood of heart attacks in men over 50, people have been using

aspirin to reduce their risk of heart disease. In recent weeks, however, new studies have upended the

expectation that aspirin can be used for prevention. Three papers published in the New England

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