Eminence or Evidence? The Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity in Healthcare

Today’s digital revolution is forcing the healthcare practitioner to read too much, but learn very little. Contemporary knowledge systems have disintegrated into minutiae, focusing more and more on intricacies devoid of perspective. Scientific literature has become hopelessly fragmented and unmanageably voluminous. This is a double whammy. The digital deluge has shifted focus from primary to secondary sources, with the big picture getting further confounded by feel‑good reports engineered by vested interests. Posttruth perceptions render health information inscrutable.