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This Fortnight in Medicine

37 min • 4 juni 2025

We are beginning a new series today. John and Adam will discuss a couple of articles we found interesting. Please let us know your thoughts. This week:

This Fortnight in Medicine

Senaste avsnitt

This Fortnight in Medicine V

This Fortnight in Medicine (IV)

Friday Reflection 49: The Patients of 12 Reisman

This Fortnight in Medicine (Episode III)

This Fortnight in Medicine (Episode II)

This Fortnight in Medicine

Ask Us Anything

Vinay at FDA; what's next for Sensible Medicine; ask us anything answers

Friday Reflection 48: Linguistics, Diagnosis, and Medical Error

A Conversation with Professor Jeffrey Flier Regarding Changes in NIH Funding

RFK Jr hearings/ Eulogy Values & NIH delays

A Conversation with Michael Easter from the TWO/PERCENT

Friday Reflection 47: Patients Make the Hardest Decisions

A conversation with Margaret McCartney, MD, PhD regarding evidence-based medicine and conflicts of interest

UCSF hematology oncology interest group

Adam Cifu Interviewed by Michael Easter on the TWO/PERCENT Substack and Podcast

A live taping from Wash U, a Sensible Medicine discussion

MAHA and Medical Conservatism

Systematic reviews 101

Ask me anything

Friday Reflection 45: Patients

Sensible medicine ask us anything part 2

Ask us anything podcast

Back to Sleep Series in Audio Format

Friday Reflection 44: Diagnostic Enigma

How can we do better as a county hospital?

Friday Reflection 43: The Absence of Reassuring Counterfactuals in Clinical Medicine

What Medical School Looks For and What Medical School Should Look For

The Retirement of Dr. Mark Siegler

Friday Reflection 42: Patient Approaches to a Doctor’s Visit

A Discussion with Professor Venk Murthy on Coronary Artery Disease

Impella, Mammograms and Med School Fails Students

Fear and Opioids in Academic Medicine

A discussion with interventional cardiologist Dr David Cohen on medical evidence, TAVR and stroke prevention

Adam and I discuss the week's medical news

Cifu, Prasad, Mandrola

Friday Reflection #39: What to Expect When You Are Aging

A Novel Approach to AF Ablation

Video version of our podcast

Cifu, Mandrola, Prasad

A Discussion with Dr. Dena Zeraatkar regarding analytic flexibility in observational studies

Friday Reflection 38: Yesterday’s Solutions; Today’s Problems

Yet Another Excellent Explainer About P-Values in Randomized Trials

Friday Reflection 37: Why I Teach (acceptable and less acceptable reasons)

Friday Reflection 36: Why Don’t Doctors Want to See Patients?

New Austrian Study Shows Boosters do NOT reduce COVID19 deaths in people who had COVID

Math Professor Ben Recht and I Discuss P-values and Confidence Intervals

A discussion with the primary investigator of the world's first placebo-controlled AF ablation trial

Mandrola and Prasad are back

Mandrola and Prasad are back

Friday Reflection 35: Four Who Fired Me

Friday Reflection 32: The Trauma of Not Dying Alone

Soren Diederichsen on Atrial Fibrillation Screening

Andrew Foy has a Different Conclusion on a Big JAMA paper on CV risk reduction

Friday Reflection 31: Senses, Memories, and Medicine

Sudden cardiac death and arrhythmias in athletes

Prasad's lecture gets cancelled/ Cifu Gets COVID

New Podcast -- Discussion with Rita Redberg and Angela Lu regarding Their Study on Conflict of Interest

Foy and Mandrola Talk Coronary Calcium and a New Super-Exciting Approach to Medical Education

Foy and Mandrola Discuss AF, AF-Ablation, Sham-controls, Evidence Translation and Heterogenous Treatment Effects

Coumadin beats DOAC, ECMO fails, When RCTs needed, Bad COVID Policy

Friday Reflection 29: The Totally Predictable Doctor as Patient Essay

Sensible Medicine x Vaccine Curious: Tracy Beth Høeg and Christine Stabell Benn compare US & Danish COVID-19 response and child vaccination policy

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

Mandrola & Prasad on Republicans and COVID outcomes, Journals and stenting

A Conversation with Professor Robert Yeh

Friday Reflection 27: The Poor Historian

Friday Reflection #26: General Internal Medicine in the Time of COVID

Podcast discussion on Nutrition Science, HFpEF and the NYT article on treatment of PAD

Friday Reflection 25: The Advice I’d Like to Give a Student Entering Medical School

Friday Reflection 24: I Would Rather Go Back in Time

Sensible medicine

Friday Reflection 23: The Ghost Patient Panel

Medical Conservatism, the ELAN Trial, and Residents Striking

Medical Evidence, Hype, Cancer Drugs, Conflict

Friday Reflection 22: The Memory Binder

A Heartfelt Plea to Become A Primary Care General Internist

Seeding trials/ Choosing Students