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

JUNE 7, 2024

Adam Cifu Many doctors tell me why I should take these medications. The cardiologist orders a nuclear treadmill test, angiography, a dietary consult, and more medications to correct abnormal test results. The nephrologist wants a kidney biopsy, a dietary consult, and orders more tests and medications.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Last week the FDA approved a novel non-opioid pain medication. Second, a new pain medication would serve a huge unmet need, because many people begin opioid addition from a post-op opioid. “The second and third authors and the medical writers were employed by the sponsor, and medical illustrators who were paid by the sponsor.”

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 29, 2021

By Dr. Salvatore Viscomi, chief medical officer, GoodCell, and an attending physician at Baystate Health. The article What The DTC Testing and Wearables Wave Means For Your Next Doctor’s Visit appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 22, 2024

Examples: patients with new heart failure get coronary angiography; patients with chest pain without evidence of heart attack get stress tests; certain drugs and devices become favored over generics. Practice patterns. Ways of doing things. The curious thing about many therapeutic fashions is their lack of evidentiary support.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s been a few years since I first heard about the Galleri test produced by the Menlo Park startup Grail. Galleri is a blood-based screening test for cancer. For a couple of reasons, I didn’t work very hard to learn about the Galleri test. Second, I was worried that this test might have real promise.

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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

JUNE 12, 2023

Most medical studies use a frequentist approach of testing a null hypothesis (H0). Statistical tests would then measure the surprise value of the observed data given this assumption of no difference. .” ” They did not do a statistical test. My thoughts as a consumer of medical evidence I love this approach.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

She follows up at a “highly ranked” west coast academic medical center, near where she lives half the year. 1 What did the medical center do? They also repeated all the tests that the community hospital had done. Fortunately, healthcare is free, and the patient was not harmed by the testing.

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Sensible Medicine

APRIL 1, 2024

The medical establishment went nuts. If TACT 2 is non-significant, we all learn the most common thing about medical science: new discoveries are hard. If that happens, the FDA should hold an emergency meeting about how medical devices are approved. A significant result! The consequences of a negative DanGer shock are massive.

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Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 9, 2024

Noah Lyles tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday and received Paxlovid and other medications. On Thursday, he earned the bronze medal in the 200 meters at the Olympics

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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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Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It was believed that being a doctor meant you had to remember a great number of obscure things, and so we designed tests that heavily weighted memorization. We restricted medical school to undergraduates who excelled in biology, chemistry, and physics because doctors were also expected to be scientists.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 16, 2024

I had been telling myself that the addition of AI to medical practice would be a net positive. Second, if a diagnosis is not made on the history and physical, the patient must be educated and informed about why further testing -- some of it expensive, or uncomfortable, or invasive – is necessary. “ 2.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

I read many of his essays including Hyposkillia and Medical Education on the Brink. Old-fashioned doctors spend whatever time it takes to obtain a good medical history and physical examination. A thoughtful H&P can avoid unnecessary tests that in turn produce false positive results that then demand further evaluation.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 14, 2025

Process measures suggested that doctors and nurses responded to the alerts with increased testing of lactate levels and fluid resuscitation. 1 In fact, chapter 5 in Ending Medical Reversal is all about this. (It’s Alerts occurred in 14.6% of the screening group and 17.6% of the no screening group.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 31, 2023

And it puts to the test an everyday practice in US cardiology. Ischemia is medical jargon for finding obstructions in coronary arteries. The second area of uncertainty was the question of going right to the cath lab for angiography after a positive stress test. It was a conservative vs early invasive approach to ischemia test.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 12, 2024

The question today is whether modern medical screening can improve on those basic lifestyle choices. For instance, the estimate includes only the initial cost of the mammogram, PSA test, and CT scan. As everyone knows, the downstream costs to evaluate positive tests likely exceed initial costs many times over.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 20, 2025

When I first started working in medical education, I was trained to refer to all physicians by “Doctor Lastname;” I was trained to be gracious even when they did not respond to my third email that said “Response Needed” in the subject line; they may be dealing with true life-or-death situations, I was told.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 1, 2024

He acknowledges that we have little to no data that our currently accepted cancer screening tests reduce all cause mortality. ” Going further, Dr. Attia argues that our studies of screening tests do a poor job of finding the benefit of screening. There is a very small chance this test will save your life.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 14, 2023

One of the many privileges of being a physician, and a professor of medicine at a “prestigious” medical school, is getting to talk to young people who are considering a career in medicine. After taking his history and doing his physical exam, I recommended HIV testing. “Not going to happen,” was his reply.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

But it is also worthy of a column here because we at Sensible Medicine are interested in how new therapies are tested. But, ultimately, a new medical intervention has to improve an important outcome as well as or better than standard care. It’s why I remain a medical conservative. This is huge news in cardiology.

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Northwest Career College

MARCH 28, 2025

This does not happen accidentally, but it is a skilled result of medical administrative assistants maintaining electronic medical records. If you want to enter the healthcare industry for a career but want to remain outside the examination rooms, becoming a Medical Administrative Assistant is a great choice.

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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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MedQuest College

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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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ACI Medical & Dental School

JANUARY 9, 2025

Our In Demand Career Spotlight Series focuses on careers in the medical and dental industries where demand for skilled workers outpaces supply. At ACI Medical & Dental School, you can be certified for these in-demand careers in just four months with the hands-on training, skills, and credentials youll need for your new job.

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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. They spend money on test prep courses and needle their teachers into inflating grades. Because it is more competitive to get to where they are.

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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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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

Then someone discovered that the largest living thing in the world was actually the 106 acre, 47 thousand tree Pando aspen grove in central Utah, which genetic testing revealed to be a single organism. If true, this would still be between double and triple the size of Permanente Medical Groups.

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Medical Economics

JANUARY 6, 2025

Most people struggle to pull basic information out of standard pathology reportslike whether or not they have cancer.

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Serenity Nurse Aide Academy

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Enrolling in medical training programs in Charlotte, North Carolina , helps trainees gain the high-demand skills needed to navigate real-world challenges in hospitals, clinics, and other medical environments. With training, trainees learn how to operate complex machinery, conduct accurate testing, and maintain meticulous records.

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The HIPAA Journal

JULY 8, 2024

Palomar Health Medical Group has warned patients that they may have been affected by an April 2024 cyberattack, and DaVita has learned that tracking tools on its website and mobile app may have sent user data to third-party vendors. Individual notification letters will be mailed to the affected individuals when the file review is completed.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Neurologist Hooman Kamel from the Weil Cornell Medical Center in NY had an idea about atrial fibrillation and stroke. Instead, he designed a randomized controlled trial to test this idea. Yet when it was tested in randomized controlled trials, the idea did not pan out. Academic medicine sometimes gets it right. It made sense.

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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

JULY 26, 2023

Trying to practice medicine based solely on what you learn in medical school, residency or fellowship is a doomed strategy. Third, is the use of continuing medical education (CME), employed by many state medical associations to ensure annual or biannual education. Does a 10 year recertification improve medical care?

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