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A discussion with the primary investigator of the world's first placebo-controlled AF ablation trial
If medicine does not want to get better at generating evidence, we are lost
The AI Doctor Will Message You Now
A Prominent Cardiologist Responds to our last Podcast Conversation with Vinay Prasad
Friday Reflection 35: Four Who Fired Me
In Medicine, it's hard to challenge prevailing ideas
The Absence of Suicide from Obituaries
How a “Positive” Trial Can Add Little to Clinical Care
Friday Reflection 34: Disagreement and Chagrin in Therapeutic Decision Making
US healthcare is headed for disaster
The Quandary of a "Positive" Trial with a Non-significant Result?
A Nutrition Hack That Probably Doesn’t Matter After Thanksgiving
Should insurance companies pay for double lung transplants for stage IV lung cancer
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt: A Book Review
Major Trial in Atrial Fibrillation Stopped Prematurely
Is it unethical for doctors to stop masking?
Friday Reflection 33: Making Your Doctor Laugh
Time for a Revision on Gene Editing for Cholesterol?
“Rehab” for Addiction is a Problem and a Solution
A Major Breakthrough In Obesity Treatment
Entirely predictable: More parents don't want routine vaccination for their kids
Non-significant Studies Can Teach A Lot
Do you think a bone marrow transplant is worth it?
Friday Reflection 32: The Trauma of Not Dying Alone
Doctors and 'experts' who got it wrong during the COVID-19 pandemic
Soren Diederichsen on Atrial Fibrillation Screening
Study of the Week is over at Stop and Think
Can a Dog Diagnose Colon Cancer with Her Nose?
Andrew Foy has a Different Conclusion on a Big JAMA paper on CV risk reduction
Friday Reflection 31: Senses, Memories, and Medicine
Sudden cardiac death and arrhythmias in athletes
Prasad's lecture gets cancelled/ Cifu Gets COVID
The Meaning of "Guideline Directed"
Study of the Week Pauses Today
Friday Reflection 30: Thirty Years and Counting
Forget Simplicity, Give Us Truth
How Authors' Choices Affect How Evidence Can Be Used at the Bedside
Moving the Overton Window on Bad Cancer Policy
Foy and Mandrola Talk Coronary Calcium and a New Super-Exciting Approach to Medical Education
Journals That Ban Replications--Are They Serious Scholarly Outlets At All?
The Sexual Politics of Waiting Rooms
The Needle—Peace Corps Zambia, March 6th, 2023
When Studies Can't Answer an Important Question (but are still published)
Health disparities research is full of low quality work
The Story of JOWMA, the Jewish Orthodox Women’s Medical Association
RCTs Can Inform Even the Most Dire Medical Situations
Coumadin beats DOAC, ECMO fails, When RCTs needed, Bad COVID Policy
Friday Reflection 29: The Totally Predictable Doctor as Patient Essay
My Pick of the Most Important Study from the European Society of Cardiology Meeting
The FDA's approval of Pfizer's maternal RSV vaccine has omitted key data and is problematic
COVID19 Therapeutics & Boosters all need new studies
Could we do worse than the PSA for prostate cancer screening?
The NOAH Study Provides Evidence That Aids Decision-Making in Atrial Fibrillation
Friday Reflection 28: Four of the Things Patients Have Taught Me
Mandrola & Prasad on Republicans and COVID outcomes, Journals and stenting
A Brilliant Comment Makes the Study of the Week
A Conversation with Professor Robert Yeh
Who Needs Religion When We Have Pharma
I have yet to find a study with more spin
Friday Reflection 27: The Poor Historian
A Trial that Upends an Everyday Practice in Cardiology
Politics and Medicine is a Bad Idea
Is Shortness of Breath Due to Heart Failure Different from Shortness of Breath Due to Asthma?
The Most Important Trial in Modern Cardiology
Bad Science Needs to Be Called Out
Friday Reflection #26: General Internal Medicine in the Time of COVID
Preprint Servers have Repeatedly Censored our Work on COVID-19 Policy
Podcast discussion on Nutrition Science, HFpEF and the NYT article on treatment of PAD
Maintenance of Certification Has to Go
Stanford's president is not the only researcher pushing unfounded and incorrect conclusions
On the meaning of a coronary blockage. Chapter 2 of the mini-series
Does Anyone Still Care About Data?
A New Mini-Series on the Study of the Week: What Does it Mean to Discover a Coronary Blockage?
When Doctors Become Political - The 2016 shift
Friday Reflection 25: The Advice I’d Like to Give a Student Entering Medical School
Supreme court justices & health services researchers cite bad science in Affirmative Action debate
A Listener Criticizes Our Conversation on Medical Journals
Speaking with One Voice on Cancer Screening
Placebos/ Journals are Failing/ Cancer Screening
The Study of the Week Looks Back and Asks One Question
"I just want to work on my car"
Why Attribution Bias Might be the Costliest Bias
Aging, Senescence, and the Human Condition
The Study of the Week Celebrates Independence Day
Friday Reflection 24: I Would Rather Go Back in Time
Mandrola Chooses a Favorite Academic Article
Study of the Week: Cardiovascular Safety of Testosterone Replacement Therapy
Rochelle Walensky’s Report Card on Women’s Health
Oseltamivir Continues to Teach Us Lessons
Friday Reflection 23: The Ghost Patient Panel
Does the Shingles Vaccine Stop Dementia... in women... and even more than it stops shingles?
A Controlled Trial of Arthroscopic Surgery for Osteoarthritis of the Knee
Medical Conservatism, the ELAN Trial, and Residents Striking
Part 2 - The ELAN Trial Forces Doctors to Be Mature About Using Medical Evidence
Medical Evidence, Hype, Cancer Drugs, Conflict
A Simple Study May Herald a Big Change in Evidence-Based Medicine
Friday Reflection 22: The Memory Binder
“What’s in a Word”: from Gendered Suffixes to Medical Spin
What are science journals for, anyway?
Study of the Week Takes a Pause
A Heartfelt Plea to Become A Primary Care General Internist
The Infomercial Comes to The Wall Street Journal
Some Surrogate Endpoints Are Fine
Seeding trials/ Choosing Students
Pfizer's Maternal RSV Vaccine Clears FDA Advisory Committee
Friday Reflection #21: Revealing Ignorance
Boycotting medical conferences in red states due to restrictive abortion laws does not help women
When Studies Don’t Answer Their Question
"It's hopeless," the prospect of reforming cancer trials
Mammography - everything you need to know
The Political Badge of Ignoring Natural Immunity
Red Blood Cell Transfusion Practices: A Paragon of EBM?
Mandrola gives VP Health Advice
Understanding Benefits of a Treatment
Friday Reflection 20: The Clinical Set Point
Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease with Pravastatin in Men with Hypercholesterolemia
ABMS Maintenance of Certification - It’s Origins, Realities, and Implications for Medicine – Part II
Doctors vs Chatbot – The First Round
ChatGPT crushes real doctors in answering patient questions
ABMS Maintenance of Certification – Its Origins, Realities, and Implications for Medicine – Part I
Suicide and Opioids: No Easy Answers, No Sweeping Conclusions
The Uncertainty of Clinical Trial Results
Medical uncertainty, 7th dose, ABIM and Modules
How does Cochrane normally handle wide confidence intervals?
Death and Isolation During a Pandemic
Does Black Representation Save Lives?
CDC Reform—Where Should We Start?
New Study Looks at Vaccine-Associated Cardiac Deaths in Young People
Friday Reflection 19: A Pledge That Can Be Hard to Honor
Friday Reflection #19: A Pledge That Can Be Hard to Honor
No civilized or lawful purpose is served by executing the severely mentally ill
Postmenopausal Estrogen and Progestin Use and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
Does Serious Exercise Harm Muscles in Statin Users?
RSV vaccines/ Mifepristone/ Overtreatment/ Long COVID
Pfizer's RSV Vaccine in Pregnant Women
Debunkers return to the 'soft targets'
Preparing to Battle the Computers
Tidbits on Psychiatric Technique
Chat GPT - Medical Journals - Treating early disease states
Evidence based medicine: misunderstood and in decline
Friday Reflection #18: An Homage to Mentors
Friday Reflection 18: An Homage to Mentors
Caffeine Intake and the Risk of First-Trimester Spontaneous Abortion
Using Evidence Requires Caution
Denmark: Where Everyone Agrees with me about Covid-19 and Oncology
The FDA has an invisible clinical trials problem. Creative nudging could help to solve it
Why do we treat Zoloft and Ritalin so differently?
Bempedoic Acid-- A medicine for a condition that may not exist
Transcript of the 3/19/23 Podcast
The Sensible Medicine Podcast: 3/19/2023
Friday Reflection 17: The Grace of the Dying
Friday Reflection 17: The Grace of the Dying
A Fatally Flawed Study Enjoys a Warm Reception
Can you Exercise Too Much/ Shredding Trust in Public Health
4th year fellowship | Expertise| LONG Covid
Friday Reflection 16: The Evolution of a Stable Practice
Friday Reflection 16: The Evolution of a Stable Practice
Vaping: The Great Innovation Public Health Failed to Embrace
Characteristics of a Successful Screening Test
Yet Another Broken Study Passes Peer and Editorial Review
The inertia of clinical trials and unethical control arms
The Young Person’s Guide to Empathy
Media advice on how to avoid Flu changed after COVID; But, the evidence didn't
Tidbits on Psychiatric Technique
A Flawed Analysis Induces Severe Sadness
Public health lied about Natural immunity; Conflict of interest
Dear Oncology Fellows: We Must All Stand Up For Patients
Friday Reflection #15: Of Medicine, Baseball and Other Distractions
Friday Reflection #15: Of Medicine, Baseball and Other Distractions
Health Justice Monitor Annual Review 2022
Vaping: The Great Innovation Public Health Failed to Embrace
The “evidence pyramid” should be dismantled, brick by ill-conceived brick
Superbowl Edition - Sensible Medicine
Cochrane masking review reveals how academics are absolute hypocrites
Tidbits on Psychiatric Technique
Let's Do the Cochrane Review of Physical Measures to Reduce the Spread of Viruses
Sensible Medicine Podcast Episode 4
Hospital masking should be optional
Friday Reflection 14: Committing and Avoiding Medical Errors
An Easy Way to Spot Bias in Observational Studies
Episode #2 - Dropping out of USN&WR Med School Rankings
Sensible Medicine the inaugural podcast episode
The Meta-research Study I Want to See
It’s Time To Rely on More Than Altruism. It’s Time to Reward Kidney Donors.
The Case of Statins, Diabetes, and Bias in Observational Studies
Friday Reflection 13: Empathy Earned and Learned
Can We Please Stop Asking if Crossword Puzzles Prevent Dementia?
Finding Bias Before the First Patient is Enrolled
The American Academy of Pediatrics is Pushing Drugs & Surgery for Obesity
No, a healthy 20 year old man who had COVID19 should NOT GET a bivalent booster
In Defense of the Randomized Trial
Does Dr. Fauci still work at the NIH?
Nationwide Shortage of Tamiflu – and Other Good News
Yet Another Story on Re-Analyzing a Major Trial
Friday Reflection 12: This Job Might Just Kill Me