Sensible Medicine

JULY 30, 2024

Whether it is John Mandrola’s Study of the Week column, my “Improving Your Critical Appraisal Skills” articles, or Vinay Prasad calling out articles that contend something other than what they actually show, this is clearly an interest of ours. The article is more hypothesis-generating than conclusive.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Publish a journal article; OK. They fill journals with articles that do nothing for medicine but only add a line to a CV. A nice article that I found while writing this made the point that many of the characteristics that are rewarded in our selection process make for unhappy learners and doctors. [iii] Ace the MCAT; check.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Beggs shared the videos on TikTok where she quickly racked up hundreds of thousands of views. She now has over 600k followers on the app. She said she feels a responsibility to show up for her audience now that she’s built such a devoted following. In fact, it’s enhancing her knowledge and experience.

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Scrubs

APRIL 6, 2023

“It just doesn’t follow the science. ” Now that the state mask mandate is null and void, it’s up to each facility to implement its own mask requirements. Chin-Hong said he expects many hospitals will still require masks for all patients and staff but that requiring every facility to mask up no longer makes sense.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 19, 2024

What follows is one of those written by Mariana Barosa. Over time, following guidelines became synonymous with delivering optimal evidence-based care, giving rise to what I call guideline-driven EBM. In 2005, the average primary care physician would need 18h/day to follow recommendations for chronic disease and preventive care.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 23, 2023

They carry out doctor’s orders, check up on patients throughout the day, and make sure providers have accurate information when looking at the patient’s chart. Nurses may need to refresh their memory of this knowledge every few years to make sure they have the latest and most up to date information. 34 12 votes, 1.9

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 6, 2024

We thought we’d be able to write a book about churnalism – sort of a follow-up to Ending Medical Reversal – but that book was not meant to be. This page provides links to the original series of churnalism articles and to articles that highlighted some truly egregious examples as they appeared.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Being perfectly honest, not all the articles have aged well. One of these was an article that Vinay Prasad and I wrote back in 2016: Wearables, Smartphones and Novel Anticoagulants: We Will Treat More Atrial Fibrillation, but Will Patients Be Better Off? I am actually embarrassed by a few of them and many are forgettable.

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Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I’ve been following the general conversations and have been particularly interested in AI’s potential to improve diagnostic performance. We covered an early, ingenious article by John W. I started with a steroid two years ago, but the pain was too severe and I ended up with an injection in my back. Adam Convinced?

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Scrubs

JULY 29, 2023

According to a recent article by The Washington Post , a surgical team in Virginia has found themselves in hot water after a patient accidentally recorded a conversation taking place between the three medical professionals while he was anesthetized. Followed by “It’s probably tuberculosis in the penis, so you’ll be all right.”

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Scrubs

APRIL 5, 2023

Dereck Paul is the co-founder of Glass Health, a start-up in San Francisco that offers artificial intelligence chatbot services to doctors looking to ease the burden of routine processes, such as patient documentation. And now doctors are using it to answer routine clinical questions.

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Sensible Medicine

APRIL 2, 2024

Improving Your Critical Appraisal Skills will be made up of “chapters” dealing with how to read articles about various study types. There is even a podcast that follows some of the original articles. These chapters are adapted from my former course, Critical Appraisal of the Landmark Literature.

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Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 16, 2024

My aim is to shed light on the quality of scientific articles being published. With that in mind, the reported outcomes, such as the reduction in heart failure hospitalizations at three years, and even the questionable reduction in total mortality in the first years of follow-up, are likely to be the result of statistical noise.

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Scrubs

MARCH 6, 2023

Palmer reached out to the Mount Pleasant Police Department for a follow up,” the department said. The no-driving period can last up to a year or more, but the length depends on the type of tumor and the treatment they received. On February 19, 2023, Ms. The officers wrote that she is now doing well and in recovery.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 1, 2024

I’m writing about Dr. Attia because a dozen readers referenced him in comments and emails about the first two articles in this series. He posted a nice article in January on his website that summarize some of his views. If you appreciate our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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Scrubs

MARCH 3, 2023

She is a hospice nurse and educator who spends her time teaching her followers about the end-of-life experience. So, I started playing around a little bit, sharing my message, and before I knew it, I developed quite a following,” says Haver. Julie McFadden shares content on TikTok under the username @HospiceNurseJulie.

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Scrubs

MARCH 13, 2023

She called the police and started following the woman from a safe distance. “I I just kind of followed her where she was walking, and they were there very, very quickly.” I thought for sure when it was him calling me that he was going to say, thank you for calling, it didn’t end up being her, if you see anything else, give us a call.”

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Even though my practice is made up of about 750, overwhelmingly older people, mostly with chronic medical conditions, I only attend to the death of a patient a few times a month. There have been previous admissions after which the patient did not make it to follow-up appointments. Acceptance followed and waxed and waned.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 30, 2023

Ioannidis's first paper , that was published in JAMA and co-authored by two Italian researchers, focused on mega-journals, i.e. open-access peer-reviewed journals publishing more than 2000 articles per year. In short: scientific journals made up of editorials, commentaries, reviews, viewpoints, podcasts, interviews, videos.

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Scrubs

JUNE 1, 2024

This helpful article will go through a handy checklist for managing your wellbeing while working in this sector. Reaching out to friends to catch up for a coffee or meal is a tried and trusted way to connect with a close person and talk to them about your life, your work and what’s happening for you. So, read on to learn more.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 26, 2023

I am posting the “Study of the Week” today and John will be publishing a “My Favorite Article” piece later in the week. It can be caused by failure of the testes to produce testosterone or by a problem higher up in the “pituitary-hypothalamic axis.” Mandrola and I are trading beats this week.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

A 15-second clip of her dancing at a soul club recently went viral on TikTok, racking up over 7.5 Some of Hodkin’s followers have donated money to get the club up and running. Amy Hodkin knows how to bust a move. million views. I salute everyone and everyone who comes onto this dance floor.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 9, 2024

Her essay about paying people for organ donations remains one of my favorite Sensible Medicine articles and has become part of my “teaching arsenal.” Throughout, we insisted on the importance of continued epidemiological follow-up to detect the rare or later complications that might be associated with long-term use.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Last week’s article outlined my pretty dim view of the test. They would have to be followed over many years to determine whether patients who received the test were diagnosed with specific cancers earlier than those in the control group and how much longer they lived as a result. (I’ve

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Scrubs

MAY 9, 2023

He’s been chronicling the journey on social media to show his followers what it means to give back to the community. For his next act of kindness, Tsiliacos teamed up with Good Morning America to surprise a group of 167 nurses at Shriners Children’s Hospital/Northern California for Nurses’ Week 2023.

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Scrubs

APRIL 26, 2023

“If that ballot is successful, it will mean further strike action right up until Christmas,” Cullen said. She added, “The only way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them … including in court.” After the upcoming demonstrations, Cullen said the members will vote on their next move.

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Scrubs

MARCH 21, 2023

MaineHealth recently announced it is using AI to automatically record conversations between doctors and their patients during a check-up or follow-up visit. We end up doing what we went into medicine for,” she said. But a new artificial intelligence program could do away with this practice for good.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“I wasn’t somebody who played with dolls, except my sister’s dolls, and I would line them up in the hallway in our house in California and I would play hospital ship.” She started in the coronary care department but eventually moved up to the ICU and emergency department, but the facility wasn’t exactly equipped for urgent care.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 15, 2024

There was a follow-up component to the biochemistry question, and it too was a logic puzzle, however, unfortunately it was incorrect. The big problems (this article) are never discussed. Next up… residency. If they both paid the exact same for each hour worked, I am sure both would be equally competitive.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 6, 2023

This new sense of self helped her stay focused on the end goal as opposed to getting hung up on the daily challenges of dieting. Nurses can also talk about the benefits of keeping up with regular checkups, cancer screenings and other important preventative measures.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 11, 2023

Patients around the country are getting stuck with enormous medical bills as hospitals continue to mark up the cost of their services, including those for routine medical procedures and advanced surgeries. He ended up staying in the hospital for four days and came out with a bill for over $100,000. Total healthcare spending in the U.S.

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Scrubs

MARCH 27, 2023

Linda Pegg and Becky Meadows may be done with nursing after hanging up their scrubs, but they aren’t done helping people in need. Each sponsorship group works with up to 15 individuals who are responsible for some part of the transition process. “In (the United States), you can follow your own ideas and beliefs.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 15, 2025

His own heroin addiction began when he was a teenager, following his father’s assassination, and ended in his arrest at age 29. This is a condensed version of her article in The Free Press that also discussed GLP-1 receptor agonists, cannabis, and psychedelics. As the medical director of a methadone clinic in Washington, D.C.,

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Scrubs

AUGUST 6, 2023

If you’re thinking about binging Netflix for another 90 minutes or staying late to answer a few extra emails, all that sitting might catch up with you. When we sit, our largest muscles are completely relaxed, which means they take up less glucose from the blood. You may also have trouble sleeping if you work overtime continuously.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

Now kick up your feet, pour yourself a glass of wine and let allllll the joyous perks of nursing sink in. Think about it: When you represent one of the nation’s most trusted and respected professions, you sidestep some of the unpleasantries that follow hot on the heels of others. You can literally save lives.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

If patients are having trouble following the latest health recommendations, providers can engage with the community to better understand why these problems persist. economy up to $236 billion every year due to preventable medical errors, increased rates of illness and disability, and wage losses.

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Health Prime

MAY 2, 2024

Implement appointment reminders and follow-ups Use automated appointment reminders and follow-up communications to enhance the patient experience. Patient reminders and follow-ups are critical for a successful practice.

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