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The AI Doctor Will Message You Now

Sensible Medicine

I’ve been following the general conversations and have been particularly interested in AI’s potential to improve diagnostic performance. I started with a steroid two years ago, but the pain was too severe and I ended up with an injection in my back. I am not an artificial intelligence skeptic or pessimist.

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I Am Afraid of Early Cancer Detection

Sensible Medicine

This week will be a straight up critical appraisal (with a bit of a critique of Wall Street Journalism Churnalism thrown in). This was the validation article in a series of diagnostic test articles. This study was a case-control, diagnostic test study. We then work up every positive test.

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When Trials Find Implausible Results—The SCOT-HEART trial

Sensible Medicine

Here is the 5-year survival curves for the composite endpoint of CV death and MI: How can a diagnostic test lead to this much benefit? years of follow-up, death due to coronary heart disease (CHD) or nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI) was lower in the CTA arm (38% relative; 0.7% Both were positive. That is the mystery.

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Friday Reflection 28: Four of the Things Patients Have Taught Me

Sensible Medicine

We read about diseases and their associated diagnostic tests and treatments. Diagnostic reasoning is supposed to my specialty. She responded to treatment with prednisone and was thankful at a follow-up appointment three weeks later. Diagnostic tests give you more than just a diagnosis. What did I learn from her?

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Building Trust and Empathy in Diagnostic Medical Sonography

MedQuest College

Building trust and empathy in diagnostic medical sonography is vital for delivering exceptional patient care. As a diagnostic medical sonographer, you play a crucial role in the healthcare journey by providing accurate imaging that aids in diagnosis and treatment. However, the technical aspects of the job are only part of the equation.

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Most Important

Sensible Medicine

She meets her existing patients and picks up a new one, Bill. They found a medication that made it harder to induce VT and sent him up to the medical floor for admission and monitoring with instructions to initiate that medication. After a mean follow-up of 10 months, 8.3% Bill is 35 and has a severe cardiomyopathy.

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Race in Medicine

Sensible Medicine

In the years that followed, I learned of efforts to remove racial identifiers from medical textbooks and test questions. Race is a therefore terrible diagnostic test. We define diagnostic tests as tools that distinguish two populations, in medicine, diseased and healthy. They are associated with high or low likelihood ratios.