As I pointed out in an earlier post, no practising doctor has the time to keep up with the amount of material published in medical journals.  It is thus very difficult for doctors to keep up with the latest research.  Couple with this the suggestion made by many that much of the research is skewed to obtaining the results which the pharmaceutical industry wants, and that pharmaceutical drugs are tested for statistical results, and it is little wonder that individually tailored treatment is difficult.

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