Pierre Louis
The French revolutionary has paved the way for Pierre Louis’s first clinical trials with the medical emphasis on a new concept of the medical gaze, detached and impersonal (Gere). Louis’ skepticism in the traditional medical practice arose when he found himself helpless during the mid of an epidemic of diphtheria (Gere). Eventually, Louis grew to become a therapeutic nihilist and came up with an experimental design to seek for the numeric evidences, indicating the inefficiency of the traditional healing method (Gere). The first clinical trial that Pierre Louis conducted involves the testing of the common healing method of bloodletting. Louis used his numerical method and obtained the data as evidences to prove that the bloodletting method is
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The evidence based medical practice requires multiple trials of experiments for an improved result. Hence, Louis indicates that the learning process needs to be formed with numeric data of experiments for a clear analysis of flaws and achievement. The statistics on the former trials can display the results clearly without the sentimental assumptions (Louis 65-68). In fact, Louis was skeptical of the bloodletting healing method since there were no evidences to confirm the actual effectiveness. Thus, to free the endurance of ambiguity and vagueness, Louis came up with the first clinical trial to seek for the truth. Different than the traditional believers, Louis disregarded the spiritual or special embodiment of the patient in each case. He would refuse to perform a healing method if it is based on assumptions without actual data. Indeed, he stated that based on the calculation, the treatment can be further analyzed to be accurate for a certain condition instead of being generalized for different diseases. Thus, the treatment needs to be enumerated to be collected as a recorded evidence for the future medical education (Louis 68). He also once again concluded his ideology of the necessity to disregard the medical practice basing on an idea or romance but an analysis from a series of detailed facts (Louis
The evidence based medical practice requires multiple trials of experiments for an improved result. Hence, Louis indicates that the learning process needs to be formed with numeric data of experiments for a clear analysis of flaws and achievement. The statistics on the former trials can display the results clearly without the sentimental assumptions (Louis 65-68). In fact, Louis was skeptical of the bloodletting healing method since there were no evidences to confirm the actual effectiveness. Thus, to free the endurance of ambiguity and vagueness, Louis came up with the first clinical trial to seek for the truth. Different than the traditional believers, Louis disregarded the spiritual or special embodiment of the patient in each case. He would refuse to perform a healing method if it is based on assumptions without actual data. Indeed, he stated that based on the calculation, the treatment can be further analyzed to be accurate for a certain condition instead of being generalized for different diseases. Thus, the treatment needs to be enumerated to be collected as a recorded evidence for the future medical education (Louis 68). He also once again concluded his ideology of the necessity to disregard the medical practice basing on an idea or romance but an analysis from a series of detailed facts (Louis