I recently read a blog post in The New York Times about the advances resulting from what medical professionals term evidence-based medicine. In evidence-based medicine, decisions about medical care are informed by the best available evidence about what works to treat a particular patient with a particular condition. However, the article states, for all the effort expended on selecting proven treatments for patient care, “for many patients, evidence-based medicine isn’t working” (Chen, 2011). Why? Because when many patients leave the hospital or doctor’s office, they no longer adhere to prescribed treatments. Evidence-based medicine “ignores the impact of the patient’s life at home, and results in fractured and desultory care” (Chen, 2011). When they get home, patients may not have the money or the means, for