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How Screening Procedures Differ From Diagnostic Testing
A ProPublica article reports that pregnancy screening tests are unregulated and refers to these screening tests as the “Wild Wild West” of assessment…
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The Nursing Shortage That Isn't
In 1992, thirty years ago, my wife and I wrote a book called Modern Medicine: What You’re Dying to Know. Our subject was the causes of the high cost of…
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The Art of Medicine Is Not in Your Video
The journal of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recently contained an article researching whether a video covering warning…
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In Support of Compounding Pharmacies
Big Pharma has been, as usual, busy feathering its nest. We need only to follow the money, observing the incestuous big pharma-federal government…
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Ad Hominem Replaces Reason
There has been much media coverage of Dr. Vinay Prasad’s retracted invitation to speak at a conference because about 20 people out of thousands of…
Behavioral Health for Obstetric Patients
As you can guess by now, what has become referred to as behavioral health in obstetrics is now the number one cause of pregnancy-related maternal…
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Research Bias in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Study
Vinay Prasad often writes about bias in research. In my field, I also see bias in research studies. I have always considered the research on Premarin…
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