Here are some sample operative notes for obstetrics and gynecology. Feel free to download and modify these for your use. We will add others from […]
How Should I Do A Breast Exam?
One of the great limitations of physical exam is that many (if not most providers) don’t do it very well. I have previously recommended the […]
Four Tips For Vaginal Hysterectomy
Here’s a new video with four tips to hopefully make vaginal hysterectomy a bit easier. If you haven’t yet, take a look at this post […]
What The 2016 Election Can Teach Us About Science
A lot of folks on both ends of the political spectrum were shocked at the results of the recent national election. Virtually every poll and […]
The Financial Impact of Not Utilizing Evidence-Based Medicine
The financial consequences of poor prescribing habits, as detailed in Which Drug Should I Prescribe?, are simply enormous. Recall that just one physician, making poor prescribing decisions […]
Which Drug Should I Prescribe?
Once the diagnosis is made correctly, the treatments begin. Selection of prescription drugs is one of the important (and costly) things that physicians do. How […]
Debiasing Strategies
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. — […]
Cognitive Bias
(This cartoon and nine more similar ones are here). Our human reasoning and decision-making processes are inherently flawed. Faced with so many decisions to be made every […]
Trends…
Recently, I made a disparaging comment about data that was not statistically signficant but rather was “trending” toward significance: There was an apparent “trend” towards fewer cases […]
How Do I Know If A Study Is Valid?
If you torture data for long enough, it will confess to anything. – Ronald Harry Coas Imagine that you’ve just read a study in the prestigious […]