Readers' responses to the webcast video editorial entitled "evidence-based medicine or faith-based medicine?".

As an academic physician primarily involved in basic science, I have often taken issue with EBM. It sometimes seems that the ultimate goal of EBM is to strictly codify illness so that treatment can be readily looked up online by PAs [physician assistants] or nurse practitioners. Such an outcome would be great for reimbursement coding and tort defense, but would be detrimental to patient care and to translational research. Although this extreme outcome is unlikely, I do see EBM gradually eroding flexibility and precluding reasonable treatment options.