Several years ago, one of our mentors said, "I do not like to make rounds: at the end of the day the sum of everyone's opinions is not superior to the single best decision taken by the smartest doctor of the pack". Clinical practice has changed over the years, and, thanks to the application of evidence-based methods, subjective and often partisan opinions are being replaced with reliance on unbiased facts. Nowadays, the value of every investigation can be measured according to a scale of evidence,12 and a series of guidelines, meta-analyses, consensus among experts, and composite scores are produced, enhancing medical judgment and allocating every patient to the best available treatment option.
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