When Medicine Competes, The Evidence Comes Last Eleftherios Makris October 13, 2026

https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/medicine-competes-evidence-comes-last?utm_campaign=forefront&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8I-qP6r1Suv0vacR1YjSQ9rZVwmv2tZEiM6Q8dXnR7nOjHmfQOkrCpz8hXxYapY9PuuGBeE55TdBKHDyDt9BuA75pkPw&_hsmi=444676880&utm_source=hasu The trouble with adopting unproven technology is not that clinicians are careless or hospitals greedy. It is that we have built a market in which growth depends on the appearance of progress and comparative evidence arrives last if at all.