Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 27, 2024

We’ve had a number of articles on Sensible Medicine about medical education. It is probably not surprising as many of our writers and readers have had personal experience with medical education and/or work with trainees everyday. While transparency is good, it leads to gaming the system by medical schools and students.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

On the other, articles will sometimes find second life on the site. 1 Being alerted to this article was a gift for several reasons. I read many of his essays including Hyposkillia and Medical Education on the Brink. The article itself also got me thinking. Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 4, 2023

However, much of that spending may not be medically necessary. Providers are typically paid for each test and procedure they perform, which can lead to a conflict of interest, especially when patients have to foot the bill. Find out why medically unnecessary care is on the rise and what patients can do to protect themselves.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 9, 2023

Getting access to your medical records isn’t always easy. Under HIPAA’s privacy rule, all patients have the right to inspect, review, and receive a copy of their medical records and billing records that are held by health plans and health care providers. However, state laws and provider regulations can complicate this process.

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Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Reading Vinay’s article last week called to mind one of my favorite articles. In 1999 I started teaching a course to 4 th year medical students called “Critical Appraisal of the Landmark Medical Literature.” It was a diagnostic test study, one of my favorite article types, but not a traditional one.

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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. ” Going further, Dr. .

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

There are many more people competing for slots in medical school and residency and the number of “slots” have increased at a slower pace than the applicants. Publish a journal article; OK. They fill journals with articles that do nothing for medicine but only add a line to a CV. Get straight A’s; done.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 31, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. There was a time when the only way a patient could receive comprehensive diagnostic medical tests was through a laboratory. The article Why Point of Care Testing (POCT) Is On The Rise In The Medical World appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 4, 2024

I’ve got a pretty stable approach to reading the medical literature. I then use my other “media” – NYT, NPR, twitter, office chatter – to find other articles I should be reading. Last week, there were no articles that changed my practice but there were a few that I found interesting.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

I only read two articles last week (Labor Day, a wedding, having to debate, and then write and article with Vinay…). The article came out of the University of Pittsburgh and studied patients there. So why does this article not make me more bullish on mammography? Let me count the ways. Observational data.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 1, 2023

We call this phenomenon “spin”, and it is widespread in medical literature. This phenomenon extends beyond medical professionals reading medical literature. Yet, despite the growing aspiration of patients to actively participate in their health decisions, medical language remains stuck in its patronizing past.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 5, 2023

I am a total sucker for an article that argues for the importance of primary care. Pat Croskerry’s 2002 article in which he identifies 30 “failed heuristics, biases, and cognitive dispositions” is one of my absolute favorites that I reference a few times a year. I am also obsessed with our diagnostic reasoning biases.

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Scrubs

MARCH 31, 2023

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. Are they allergic to any medications?

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 28, 2024

A subsequent article in BMC Medicine highlighted the dearth of evidence. The title of this article kind of says it all: The authors suggest a depression screening RCT should exclude individuals with known depression, randomize people to screening or no screening, and make the same mental health services available to both groups.

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Scrubs

MARCH 29, 2023

A new cancer detection tool known as the “holy grail” of early detection is currently being tested in hospitals throughout the U.K., It is the first pan-cancer blood test, according to Ashish Tripathi, founder and CEO of Tzar Labs and chairman of Epigeneres Biotech, an Indian firm that first developed the test in 2021. “We

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Scrubs

APRIL 5, 2023

But he soon started getting messages from doctors, including some of his firm’s customers, who were incorporating the chatbot into their medical practice. “So, what tests they would order and what treatments they would order.” “So, what tests they would order and what treatments they would order.”

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 31, 2025

In the years that followed, I learned of efforts to remove racial identifiers from medical textbooks and test questions. Another critical point is that socially defined race (the only kind) – Black, Asian, European – are terribly inaccurate stand-ins for what medically important variation there is.

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Scrubs

APRIL 13, 2023

The number of RN candidates who passed the NCLEX on their first try fell to 80% last year as more students struggled to pass the test. After I got done with the test, I was surprised at how good I felt. They tend to have higher stress levels than nursing faculty and medical students. Nursing students are no strangers to stress.

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Sensible Medicine

APRIL 18, 2024

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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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 15, 2025

As the medical director of a methadone clinic in Washington, D.C., In the nation’s 4,000 drug courts , a type of diversionary program, judges mandate a form of treatment for a period of one to two years while the addicted offender is closely supervised, including via routine urine testing, and his progress monitored.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 14, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The American Medical Association (AMA) today announced that the CPT Editorial Panel approved a new addition to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set that will help streamline data-driven resource and allocation planning in the […].

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 25, 2023

Have I been neglecting the medical literature? For calcium deposits in breast arteries to be important, we would need to know that some action based on this finding, whether it be further diagnostic testing, lifestyle modification, or medical therapy, actually benefits a woman. Why didn’t I know this?

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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. Of course, sometimes fatigue can be a symptoms of a serious medical condition that needs to be treated – I refer you to chapter 18 of Symptom to Diagnosis: Fatigue.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 30, 2024

A pretty good portion of what we post on Sensible Medicine could be considered critical appraisal of the medical literature. Thus, it was an easy decision when a group of medical students asked if we would consider posting an appraisal that came out of their journal club. The article is more hypothesis-generating than conclusive.

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Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Kids were then taken away and tested. Shouldn’t journals be obligated to accept and print criticism of their articles? Students were told not to look backwards at the dog, but inevitably some students must have snuck a peak. The dog sat down next to suspected COVID19 kids, indicating they might have COVID19 (towards their peers).

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 30, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Everyone involved with healthcare knows how vital IT data is to the medical profession. It is an industry that generates millions of pieces of data via monitors, wearable tech, medical devices, tests, and doctors’ visits […].

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

I’ve stayed away from throwing shade at lay coverage of nutrition science since our articles, Nutrition Churnalism Part 1 and Part 2 , that we published way back in August of 2023. It is just that attacking these articles is like shooting the proverbial fish in a barrel. Here’s Why.

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Scrubs

MARCH 1, 2023

She was employed at the in-house medical clinic in a Tyson Foods plant before being ousted from the job due to her lack of credentials. But she failed the National Council Licensure Exam (NCLEX) twice that same year and never took the test again. The company delayed her access to medical care, proper treatment, and time to heal.

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Scrubs

MARCH 23, 2023

The nurse at the hospital gave her some medication and sent her home, but she went back several days later when the pain returned. Go back to the ER and they’ll do some more tests,’” Byrnes said. Byrnes initially thought the issue was related to COVID-19. They’re like, ‘we don’t know what to tell you.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 27, 2024

Designed to help fund good nutritional research with the ultimate goal of reducing obesity and testing the hypothesis that “all calories are equal,” NUSI, unfortunately has floundered and is dead. He now knows these numbers indicate high levels of apoB "but no one bothered to test my apoB number." To support his Medicine 3.0

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 20, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. A career in medical radiography can be a rewarding job. You will be among the patients needing tests conducted with specialized machinery and tools. The article Medical Radiography: What Should You Expect In A Career?

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Scrubs

JUNE 7, 2023

The latest approval frees the company from having to test its products on animals. The news comes as Neuralink is being investigated for possibly rushing the testing process. lawmakers asked regulators to look into the Neuralink panel that oversees the startup’s animal testing. As recently as last month, several U.S.

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Scrubs

JANUARY 31, 2023

Federal prosecutors say 37% of the aspiring nurses who purchased the degrees to get around having to do the coursework required to sit for the National Council Licensure Examination passed the test. A “significant number” went on to gain licensure and secure employment at U.S.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 14, 2024

A 2021 AAP article by Parks and colleagues says, “Lack of uniformity in defining and classifying SUID is a long-standing limitation of surveillance. ” (See also this article entitled “Continuing Major Inconsistencies in the Classification of Unexpected Infant Deaths.”) Dr. Paul N.

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19 Labs

JANUARY 11, 2022

Some diagnostic tools can also be quite complex to operate, and require a trained medical professional on-site. To address this problem, 19Labs and QT Medical announced a collaboration, to bring comprehensive, cost-effective, and intuitive eClinics worldwide. Link to original article here.

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Scrubs

MARCH 14, 2023

The drug is an antidiabetic medication that’s used as an appetite suppressant in individuals looking to lose weight. The long hours of the job, stressful working conditions, and the medication she was taking for PTSD contributed to her poor diet and lack of exercise. Plus, it’s expensive,” she adds.

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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. He is otherwise well, with only hypertension, well-controlled on one medication. I am not a palliative care physician or even a geriatrician.

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