So this one has been on the hard drive gathering dust for quite awhile. There were significant technical problems (in otherwords, Joel screwed up, but the episode is now complete and despite some obvious stutters, it turned out pretty good.
How Medicine Works, and When It Doesn’t
The Filtrate:
With Special Guest:
Editor:
Joel Topf
Show Notes
Understanding Medical Research: Your Facebook Friend is Wrong. Coursera
Illusory truth effect (Wikipedia)
Number needed to treat (Wikipedia)
NNT at MedPage Today:
NNT on NephJC
Deaths of Despair:
Suicide (CDC 2001-2021)
Drug Overdose (CDC 2001-2021)
Steve Jobs delayed therapy for his treatable pancreatic cancer (ABC News)
Residents are unionizing at Mass General Brigham. Here's what you need to know (WBUR)
Pi and bouncing bricks (YouTube)
Doctors in New Zealand—the only non-U.S. country that allows DTC advertising—call for bans (FiercePharma)
The Surgisphere Scandal: What Went Wrong? (The Scientist)
VITAL SIGNS: FERTILITY; A Study Links Prayer and Pregnancy (The New York Times)
Researcher Pulls His Name From Paper on Prayer and Fertility (The New York Times)
Tubular Secretions
Josh: Glomerular Nephritis by Thomas Addis (Review in JAMA from 1948)
Jennie: The Chicago Marathon
Jade: The People’s Hospital (Amazon)
Perry: Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Amazon)