Rants & Ramblings
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My transition from medical student to practicing diagnostician was marked by one key realization: doctors don’t make definitive diagnoses. Many think that we do. Our patients are certainly under that illusion. But even at the best of times, the physician’s job to to determine the probability of disease.
I got to sit down in person with Ken Milne this week while at the great SkiBEEM conference and talk about evidence based medicine. I know – life just can’t get much better. The episode of The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine that we recorded about the HEAT trial was just released today. […]
How is the BMJ different from MAD Magazine? Well, I have never found a hidden picture by folding the pages of the BMJ, and although the editorials are occasionally pithy, they really can’t compare to the entertainment value of Spy vs Spy. On the other hand, the BMJ is considered […]
Research participants are offered a contract: assume the risks of research for the betterment of humanity. We are routinely breaking that contract...