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The Limits of PSA Screening Tests Shouldn’t Discourage Their Use
Cross posting Dr. Lindemann’s discussion of PSA screening tests.
U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate Continues to Climb
Alan Lindemann writes often on his RuralDocAlan Substack page about the U.S. maternal mortality rate. But there’s always something more to talk…
Substack Has Joined the Paywallers
Note: This post also appears as a guest entry on RuralDocAlan’s Substack page. I wrote a post on subscriptions as paywalls back in February. Over the…
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The Ivory Tower and Poisoned Wells
Years ago the Ivory Tower was a place where scientists cloistered themselves to do research without bias and results were published in peer-reviewed…
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Why You Should Read "Pregnancy Your Way"?
At long last, after three years of work, our book Pregnancy Your Way is published and available on Amazon. Why do we think this is worth celebrating? On…
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Evidence-Based Medicine And The Outliers
While I understand the reasoning behind evidence-based medicine (EBM), common sense tells us that no rules are going to correctly fit a situation 100…
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RACs and the Quality of Care
I’ve written before on the nonsense of trying to make a recipe card define quality heath care for patients, emphasizing that expert knowledge is not…
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Antibiotics and the River Styx
Just try to get a post-surgery antibiotic. It’s easier to cross the River Styx. I understand the reasoning behind the notion of “antibiotic stewardship…
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