Abstract
Ceylon Medical Journal (CMJ) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal published quarterly by the Sri Lanka Medical Association in the last week of March, June, September and December each year. The mission of the CMJ is to promote the science and art of medicine and betterment of public health. The Journal publishes original papers and commentaries which have relevance to medicine and allied sciences. The CMJ is committed to maintaining and conforming to the editorial and ethical standards recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
Highlights
Since its beginnings with Socrates, philosophy has often involved the project of questioning the accepted knowledge of the day
The objective of this three part article series is to have a philosophical discourse in the simplest form using the Evidence based medicine (EBM) paradigm
Most of the philosophical discourses of EBM has been done in the context of criticizing its principles
Summary
Since its beginnings with Socrates, philosophy has often involved the project of questioning the accepted knowledge of the day. Evidence based medicine (EBM) paradigm provides an excellent textbook example to employ philosophical teaching to analyse the process, content and principles of EBM with an object to understand the perceptions that EBM has conclusive answers to all the questions. This is not a critique of evidence-based medicine or we do not suggest anything beyond EBM. The objective of this three part article series is to have a philosophical discourse in the simplest form using the EBM paradigm. Some have gone a step further and suggested a new doctrine beyond evidencebased medicine to overcome the short falls of the EBM [6]
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