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A new blog worth noting: “Evidence In Medicine”

e-Patient Dave | November 23, 2009

Understanding medical research, at some level, is a fundamental e-patient skill. As we start digging for reliable new information, we have to learn to separate quality from questionable. (If you think medical journals are academically pure, you’ve got learning to do.) A new blogger has emerged who’ll be a big help: David Rind, MD.

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A quote I won’t soon forget

e-Patient Dave | October 15, 2009

Marcia Angell MD is a well-known, respected physician, long-time editor of NEJM. So it was a bit of a shock today when Amy Romano, blogger for Lamaze International, sent me this quote: It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of [...]

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e-Patient Training Topic: National Article Reports Relative Risk, Not Raw Data.

e-Patient Dave | August 14, 2009

Important update: it turns out the writer did get it right, and this was an editing error at the Boston Globe. See my comment August 17. —– As empowered, engaged patients we have a responsibility to evaluate the articles we read. A case in point is this week’s Associated Press article Any Spread Of Breast Cancer [...]