How a remarkable trial on bedrest during the Korean War led to evidence‑based medicine

MedicalXpress | мая 30, 2026

In 1959, a young doctor named David Sackett stumbled on a clinical trial that would change his life—and most of ours. The study showed that conventional wisdom on bed rest in medicine was wrong. And it helped lead Sackett and others to develop evidence-based medicine, in which doctors today make decisions based on rigorous scientific research.