Why is it important that treatment for people with DD be research proven and/or based on best practice standards?
Modern medicine has provided amazing advances for our health, longevity, and for society in general. The human lifespan has increased, and people are healthier into their old age than ever before. Children born today will have only academic knowledge of diseases like Polio, which affected thousands upon thousands of people less than 100 years ago. All of these advances became possible only after medicine adopted research proven and/or best practice standard based treatment. Prior to this medical treatment was largely based upon folklore. We sometimes take modern medicine for granted nowadays. To put this into perspective, imagine that you have a cut on your hand that has become infected. Today you would go to the doctor and she would follow best practice standards by prescribing a research proven treatment – an antibiotic. Before the adoption of research proven and/or best practice standard based treatment your doctor would likely have prescribed bloodletting – a treatment that not onl
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