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____________________ , just shy of ____________________ months since the World ____________________ Organization declared ____________________ - 19 a ____________________ , the media are once again ____________________ with ____________________ , patients such as Michigan State ____________________ Karen Whitsett are being ____________________ with claims that ____________________ ? saved my life , ? and ____________________ are prescribing ____________________ that have ____________________ been ____________________ to be ____________________ . Only this time , it's the ____________________ - first century , the age of ? evidence - based medicine . ? Or ____________________ it might ____________________ . But instead of ____________________ science to back up ____________________ , we now have ____________________ studies being reported ____________________ in the ____________________ , and Twitter storms of ____________________ , journalists , and ____________________ arguing about the ethics of ____________________ drugs from ____________________ patients , even though we have no ____________________ if those drugs do more ____________________ than ____________________ .

If there is a silver ____________________ to all the ____________________ , it is that this ____________________ is exposing three ____________________ fault ____________________ in medicine . First is the ____________________ on the part of ____________________ to abandon the prime ____________________ of medicine , to do no ____________________ , and rush into treatments that not only may not ____________________ but may well cause ____________________ harm . The fact is , most ____________________ are not ____________________ to recognize ____________________ science from ____________________ . Nor do they have the ____________________ to ____________________ every ____________________ , and too many are willing to ____________________ the need for ____________________ evidence when ____________________ sets in . Even in ____________________ - ____________________ times , doctors often favor ____________________ that have ____________________ been in ____________________ , seem biologically ____________________ , are highly ____________________ , or have been heavily ____________________ by ____________________ . In the case of two ____________________ now being used against COVID - ____________________ , ____________________ and ____________________ , there is a very real ____________________ that patients who might have ____________________ from the virus ____________________ them will be ____________________ or even ____________________ by the ____________________ .