Recently, The Guardian reported, in an article entitled Low-risk women urged to avoid hospital birth, on the British National Health Service (NHS) urging low-risk pregnant women […]
Power Laws, Decision Making, and Anxiety
Power laws are mathematical relationships used in statistics to describe how a change in one variable affects another variable. A basic power law is illustrated […]
How Should I Do A Cesarean Delivery?
There are billions of ways to do a cesarean delivery. At least 203,843,174,400 ways that I know of (well that’s how many we are going […]
What Should Be Done At The Yearly Visit?
The annual Well-Woman Visit is in need of re-invigoration and redefinition. Unfortunately, in many physicians’ practices and in the minds of many millions of patients, the […]
The Illusion of Causality
Humans seek to explain and understand. We want answers and explanations. Our brains demand it. But our brains have developed many short-cuts to understanding and […]
Teaching Tool: The Stanford Medicine 25
Physical exam is struggling more and more to find its place in modern medicine. Numerous contemporary studies have shown limited or no diagnostic value of […]
Important Paper: The PORTO Study
I’m going to post links and summaries of important and influential papers periodically. These are papers which should change the way we practice or at […]
Absolute Risk Versus Relative Risk: A Clinical Example
Risk distortion pervades our daily life. Whether we do or don’t do things, as the case may be, is affected by our perception of the […]
What Should Be Done At The Postpartum Visit?
The postpartum or postnatal visit has evolved significantly over the decades. It remains a largely ill-defined, and poorly evidenced-based, episode of care. The value and […]
Preventable Causes of Death
webappa.cdc.gov/cgi-bin/broker.exe Though this may seem like more of a political post, in reality, its about statistics and their misuse and the cognitive distortion afforded from […]