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Friday Reflection 22: The Memory Binder
I visit the binder to pay my respects, to learn, to reminisce, and to trace the arc of my career.
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Adam Cifu, MD
22
“What’s in a Word”: from Gendered Suffixes to Medical Spin
There is a much room for improvement in medical language
 • 
Camilla Alderighi
 and 
Raffaele Rasoini
22
Highs and Lows
With a Comment on Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment
 • 
Martin Greenwald, M.D.
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The CDC director just got COVID. She got the new bivalent booster a month ago.
 • Vinay Prasad
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Before We Push the New Omicron Vaccine, Let’s See The Data
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Legitimizing irrational anxiety is bad medicine
 • Vinay Prasad
195
Sacrificing children’s health in the name of Health
 • Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
78
John Ioannidis: The Pandemic as of 7/28/2022
 • Vinay Prasad
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What are science journals for, anyway?
As Richard Smith, former editor-in-chief of the BMJ, wrote medical journals “can move medicine forward, less through providing a clear direction of…
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Luca De Fiore
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Study of the Week Takes a Pause
The NEJM published a paper last week that may change the future of medical evidence. It is seriously important. But today is Memorial Day in the US. It…
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John Mandrola
23
A Heartfelt Plea to Become A Primary Care General Internist
Medicine in America will be better, more humane, and more affordable with more good, smart, dedicated primary care physicians. Be part of the solution.
 • 
Adam Cifu, MD
55
The Infomercial Comes to The Wall Street Journal
Can we help woman by responding to calcium deposits in arteries in the breasts?
 • 
Mark Buchanan
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Self-reported Cannabis Use as a Risk Factor for Schizophrenia in Swedish Conscripts of 1969: Historical Cohort Study
Another of My Favorite Studies
 • 
Adam Cifu, MD
11
Some Surrogate Endpoints Are Fine
The Study of the Week considers a trial that tested an intervention for helping a major crisis in American healthcare
 • 
John Mandrola
22
Seeding trials/ Choosing Students
Listen now (55 min) | Mandrola Cifu and Prasad discuss the week's news
 • 
Vinay Prasad
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John Mandrola
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Adam Cifu, MD
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