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Almost the AI Article I Want

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I’ve been using Tuesday to post the “Improving Your Critical Appraisal Skills” articles recently. Even though I’ve got the case-control study ready to go, I’m taking a quick break because I spent way too much time thinking about this article last week. Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication.

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How medical school fails students

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The medical college admission test contains many irrelevant questions that have nothing to do with being a doctor. At the same time, some standardized testing is likely needed as a test of cognitive ability and a prediction of the ability to pass future examinations and complete clerkships. We don't fire bad lecturers.

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ED Nurses on How to Ask Tough Questions When Someone’s Life is on the Line

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Every second counts when someone is having a medical emergency, and two nurses are sharing their tips on how to get necessary information from a patient when they’re struggling to communicate. They underwent various diagnostic tests, all of which came back negative. ” I knew I couldn’t rush this. .

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Hundreds of Patients Wrongly Diagnosed with Cancer Due to Software Mix-up

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The biotech firm known as Grail made headlines earlier this year thanks to its signature Galleri blood tests, which can detect up to 50 different kinds of cancer early on to improve patient outcomes. The tests were hailed as the “first of its kind” when it hit the market in 2023. ” PWNHealth said in a statement of its own.

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Masking in 2024: A Response

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It would be an understatement to say that the piece stimulated a lot of discussion — in its first 12 hours, there were 186 comments on Sensible Medicine and my tweet about the article had been viewed 16,000 times. (I David Rind sent me this article, a thoughtful, well-argued, reply. Enough with absolutes.

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“What’s in a Word”: from Gendered Suffixes to Medical Spin

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It should come as no surprise that doctors, fueled by a literature imbued with spin, tend to emphasize the pros rather than the cons of health treatments or tests when discussing them with their patients. Health communication is not neutral. We call this phenomenon “spin”, and it is widespread in medical literature.

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The AI Doctor Will Message You Now

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One place that I am skeptical is AI entering into the doctor/patient communication. We covered an early, ingenious article by John W. The test characteristics of most data from the history is poor. Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication. If you appreciate our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.