Ob/gyn Students: Read these first…
- What Should Be Done At The Yearly Visit?
- What Should Be Done At The Postpartum Visit?
- What Should Be Done At Routine Prenatal Visits?
- What Birth Control Should I Prescribe?
- How Do I Make a Differential Diagnosis? Or, Pelvic Pain
- How Do I Diagnose a UTI?
- How Do I Diagnose Ruptured Membranes: Bayesian Statistics at its Best
- How Should I Do A Breast Exam?
- Which Drug Should I Prescribe?
- How Do I Know if a Study is Valid?
Vaginal Hysterectomy
- Simplified Vaginal Hysterectomy
- Four Tips For Vaginal Hysterectomy
- To Cysto or Not To Cysto….
- Four Tips for a Non-Descending Uterus
- What’s Old Is New Again
Statistics/EBM
- How Do I Know If A Study is Valid?
- Odds Ratio Versus Relative Risk
- Absolute Risk Versus Relative Risk: A Clinical Example
- The Illusion of Causality
- Measuring How Well A Test Works, or How To Find a Hipster
- Primer: How to Systematically Read A Scientific Paper
- How Do I Diagnose Ruptured Membranes: Bayesian Statistics at its Best
- Cancer Screenings and Over-diagnosis: Pick The Outcome That Matters
- It’s Either Normal … Or It Isn’t? Watch Out For The Drift
- Trends…
- The Percentile Fallacy
- It’s Perfect! Very accurate, with a low false positive rate…
- What’s Your Best Guess?
- The Financial Impact of Not Utilizing Evidence-Based Medicine
- I Read It On The Internet…
- People Still Matter
- Oh my … Really?
- From One Extreme to the Other…
Obstetrics/Gynecology
- What Should Be Done At The Yearly Visit?
- What Should Be Done At The Postpartum Visit?
- What Should Be Done At Routine Prenatal Visits?
- How Do I Make a Differential Diagnosis? Or, Pelvic Pain
- Important Paper: The PORTO Study
- Do The NHS Birth Recommendations Have Meaning for The US? Or, The Safety of Home Birth
- What Does the T in TVH Stand For?
- How Should You Date A Pregnancy?
- How Do I Diagnose a UTI?
- Prenatal Antidepressants and Autism? Mi dispiace!
- The Real Risks of Hormone Replacement Therapy
- Post-Tubal Ligation Syndrome (Or, Post-IUD Syndrome)
- What Birth Control Should I Prescribe?
- One Too Many?
- Will The Real Cowboy Please Stand Up? Harmful Practices and Harmful Culture in Ob/Gyn
- To Induce or Not To Induce: The 39 Weeks “Debate” (Part 1)
- To Induce or Not To Induce: The 39 Weeks “Debate” (Part 2)
- To Induce or Not To Induce: The 39 Weeks “Debate” (Part 3)
- Should We Administer Betamethasone to Women at Risk of Late Preterm Birth?
- Reducing Cesareans Infographic
- How Should I Do A Breast Exam?
- Is Hydration Useful for the Management of Oligohydramnios? Or Should We Even Care?
- Magesium Part 1: To Prevent Maternal Seizure
- Magnesium Part 2: To Prevent Preterm Labor
- Magnesium Part 3: To Prevent Cerebral Palsy
- Lessons Learned From Magnesium
- Sample Operative Notes
- When Did Breastfeeding Become a Disease?
- Secrets of the Menstrual Cycle
- Paved With Good Intentions … Or, How Do I Do a Vaginal Delivery?
- Data Dreams
- An Air of Legitimacy, A Hindrance to Progress
- OB Potpourri 3.0
Bias
- How and Where You Ask The Question Matters: Confirmation Bias
- Cognitive Bias
- Debiasing Strategies
- Prevailing Bias
- Appeal to Experience, or Insight versus Awareness
Doctoring
- Clinical Reasoning: The Scope of the Problem
- Penis Captivus and the Cult of Personality in Medicine
- The Myth Of The Black Cloud and Other Superstitions
- Risk, or The Game of Life?
- The Art of Medicine
- The Ethics of Deviating From Guidelines
- A Little Skepticism, Please
- Words Matter, or When Should I Order Labs for Preeclampsia?
- The Lost Purpose of a Chief Resident
- Which Drug Should I Prescribe?
- Ten Ways to Reduce the Cost of Healthcare
Surgeries
- How Should I Do A Cesarean Delivery?
- Simplified Vaginal Hysterectomy
- Sample Operative Notes
- Speed in Surgery
Life
- Power Laws, Decision Making, and Anxiety
- Life Lessons Learned from Crossy Road
- How Should I Pick a Speciality?
- The Residency Match
Teaching Tools
- The Stanford 25
- Teaching Adult Learners: Lessons From Yoda
- The One Minute Preceptor
- The Physician As Teacher
- A Tale of Two Teachers
Other Stuff