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Improving Your Critical Appraisal Skills #5

The Frustration of Not Being Able to Sort Signal From Noise

Improving Your Critical Appraisal Skills #4

A Discussion with Dr. Dena Zeraatkar regarding analytic flexibility in observational studies

The Definitive Analysis of Observational Studies

DanGer Shock, MRI for all, Conflict of interest

The US FDA's cancer drug approval process is broken and needs audit

Medicare doesn't pay because there is no evidence you live longer or better as a result

Improving Your Critical Appraisal Skills #3

Chelation Did Not Work But Science Did

Why you should NOT get a whole body MRI

Masking in 2024: A Response

Is It OK for Internists to Wear Masks Forever?

Almost the AI Article I Want

Finally a Positive Trial for the Impella Ventricular Support Device

Unproven healthcare will bankrupt America

Friday Reflection 38: Yesterday’s Solutions; Today’s Problems

Improving Your Critical Appraisal Skills 2

A New Approach to Evidence in Cardiology

Yet Another Excellent Explainer About P-Values in Randomized Trials

Improving Your Critical Appraisal Skills 1

Improving Your Critical Appraisal Skills

Modern Cardiology May Change Next Sunday

The Many Harms of Cancer-phobia

Doctors need to stop speculating about Kate Middleton

Peter Attia, Outlive, Cardiology 3.0 and primordial prevention of heart attacks

Life My Way!

A broken study of time-restricted eating exposes broken thinking amongst Top People

From modular to moral: why longitudinal clinical experiences matter in professional identity formation (Part 2)

What multimorbidity shows us about guideline-driven evidence-based medicine

A (different) perspective on statins in the primary prevention of heart disease

Negotiating the physician identity in an era of complexity and connectivity (Part 1)

Martin Kulldorff was wrongly fired from Harvard Medical School

Being Comfortable Being Uncomfortable – A Medical Student’s Perspective

Doing statistics can be difficult but understanding them can be fairly simple

Sensible Diversion #7 Answer

Sensible Diversion #7

Friday Reflection 37: Why I Teach (acceptable and less acceptable reasons)

Should I Change My Mind About Aspirin for the Prevention of Cardiac Events?

MIT hosts COVID-19 policy debate

I Am Afraid of Early Cancer Screening: Part III

In Defense of the Coronary Artery Calcium Scan in Primary Prevention of Atherosclerotic Heart Disease

From Guideline Recommendations to Articulated Harms and Benefits

The Story of IV-Insulin after MI

Diversion #6 Answers

Sensible Diversion #6

I Am Afraid of Early Cancer Detection

Don’t throw the baby out with the breast milk

Everyone keeping blood pressure low because of the SPRINT trial is practicing bad medicine

No, We Should Not Denounce Digoxin

Sensible Diversion #5 Answer

Sensible Diversion #5

Most Important

I Am Afraid of Early Cancer Detection

When will Nature and NEJM tell me who to vote for?

A Note On Criticism Of Yesterday's Study of the Week

The Study of the Week Is a Beautiful Example of Science Done Well

Diversion #4 Answers

Sensible Diversion #4

The Patient

Can We Select “Better” Residents?

Can Data Just Speak for Itself?

Masks are nearly all off

Answer to the third sensible diversion

A Third Sensible Medicine Diversion

Friday Reflection 36: Why Don’t Doctors Want to See Patients?

"Can you tweet my paper" vs. "Here are some edits, no need to add me"

Small Trials vs Large Trials

Sensible Diversion #2 Answer

Saturday's Sensible Diversion #2

What happens when doctors run unethical trials? They get promoted

New Austrian Study Shows Boosters do NOT reduce COVID19 deaths in people who had COVID

How Caring, Informed, Intelligent, and Committed Doctors Can Disagree about COVID Boosters

The Evidence that Established Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery is Worth Studying

A Sensible Connection Answer

A Sensible Connection

What's best: breast milk, bottle or a mix of both

Math Professor Ben Recht and I Discuss P-values and Confidence Intervals

Fraud, Distortion, and Truth in Science

Not the Way to Pull Vaccines Back from a “Dangerous Tipping Point”

A Surprising Look at the Evidence for Beta-Blockers After MI

I Still Can’t be Rational about COVID

What it Takes to Actually Achieve Shared Decision Making.

Hearing Aids are great, even if they don't save lives

The Perfect Placebo

How Many COVID Vaccines Are Enough?

Three Words that Cause Harm: "Bone on Bone"