title: [General medicine: is it concerned with EBM?].
abstract: Whereas Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) is recommended by all experts, it should be recognized that it remains far from the preoccupations of most General Practitioners (GPs). The present paper analyzes the multiple reasons explaining such a discordance. They can be found in the fundaments of EBM itself, in the characteristics of medical learning and practice and, finally, in the particularities of the individual patient-physician relationship. GPs should become active partners in the EBM process in order to influence it positively and not to bear it passively, for greater patient's benefits.
authors.affiliation: Département de Médecine Générale, Université de Liège.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Giet
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010821:Physicians, Family