Dr. Jen Gunter
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That sets up a lot of antagonism, you know, in the office.
So I think that that's setting people up to be sort of bad cop, good cop.
And I just I it doesn't sit right with me.
I think that.
It's just not something that that I would do.
Oh, you know, I, it's,
I have to say I pay less attention to what government agencies say and more with what does my medical society say because I know politics affects a lot of things.
And I also know that, for example, when you have the U.S.
Preventative Services Task Force, they're going to be a far more conservative opinion because they have methodologists, right, than maybe what I might see from my professional society, and I want to put all of that in context with the patient.
So, you know, I think that...
One issue is, is that medicine changes and it evolves.
And what we believed we knew 10 years ago might not be what we know now because that's science.
And isn't that amazing that we learned something new?
And so I think that it's very easy to go back and say, we should have said this 10 years ago.
We should not have said this 10 years ago.
But what did we actually really know at the time?
And it's hard to look back with what you know now and try to forget that.
it was a well-done appropriate clinical trial that did not have any, you know, there weren't concerns about how people were enrolled.
There weren't concerns about how the trial was done.
So because you don't like the conclusions or because they don't fit with your preconceived ideas, that doesn't make a trial bad.