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The Etiology of Denial
I can’t possibly be in denial
 • 
Mary Braun Bates, MD
22
Advice for Internship
It is that time of year!
 • 
Adam Cifu, MD
12
Primum Non Nocere
“First, Do No Harm”
 • 
Cory Rohlfsen
32
38:10
This Fortnight in Medicine (Episode II)
Tumor DNA cancer screening and the sepsis bundle
 • 
Adam Cifu, MD
 and 
John Mandrola
2
Randomized Trials Should Determine Causality and Be Useful in the Clinic—But Sometimes Accomplish Neither
The recent RCT comparing lactated ringers vs normal saline fails to answer the decades-old question. Here is why.
 • 
John Mandrola
18
Residency’s First Life Lesson
A Sensible Medicine Guest post
 • 
Marcy Henderson, MD
31
Subjectivity, RCTs, Exercise, and Colon Cancer
Why critical appraisal is endlessly fascinating and why “following the science” is a lot more difficult than it sounds.
 • 
Adam Cifu, MD
22
The NIH Just Canceled Funding for HIV Vaccine Research – Is That Wrong?
Dr Joe Marine is back with a persuasive argument that the reordering of scientific funding priorities are not that scary.
 • 
Joseph Marine, MD
80
How Not to Get Fooled by the Medical Literature - Part 4 Diagnostic Tests
The most common question we get asked is: is there a course on how to become better at critically reading medical research.
 • 
Vinay Prasad
, 
John Mandrola
, and 
Adam Cifu, MD
3
36:39
Good Ideas Require Testing – The Lessons of the NUDGE CKD Trial
Policy interventions can affect more people than specific treatments; they should also have to pass muster in randomized trials
 • 
John Mandrola
5
Another Note on Disagreement
Saturday’s post from Dr.
 • 
John Mandrola
80
Six Reasons to Become a Dermatologist
Not including the factors often cited by those less “in the know.”
 • 
Adam Cifu, MD
10
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