Two recent examples, newborn screening and continuous glucose monitoring devices, highlight the issue. In both cases, the Medical Services Advisory Committee did not just disregard patient input. The committee constructed its own patient perspective, based on undisclosed considerations, that contradicted the input from actual patients.
If they keep ignoring patient input, or worse, inventing their own, stop asking for it
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