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1 week ago | 
sensible-med.com | Adam Cifu
I did my residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. Some people think of it as The House of God, I think of it as the home of Open Notes. Dr. Tom Delbanco was the chief of General Internal Medicine while I was there and was already advocating that patients have access to their medical records. He encouraged me to document clinic visits in notes that I’d be comfortable with my patients reading.
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1 week ago | 
open.substack.com | Adam Cifu
I did my residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. Some people think of it as The House of God, I think of it as the home of Open Notes. Dr. Tom Delbanco was the chief of General Internal Medicine while I was there and was already advocating that patients have access to their medical records. He encouraged me to document clinic visits in notes that I’d be comfortable with my patients reading.
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1 week ago | 
sensible-med.com | Vinay Prasad |Adam Cifu |John Mandrola
The most common question we get asked is: is there a course on how to become better at critically reading medical research. Here it is!This is the third of 9 videos that we recorded as part of a course on clinical appraisal, and there will be many more to come. This and future videos will be made available as a thank you to paid subscribers.
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1 week ago | 
sensible-med.com | Adam Cifu |John Mandrola
Yup, it’s a little goofy but we have Merch. Just t-shirts but they’re actually kind of cool. You can see VP modeling one in this video. The link to the shop is here.
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2 weeks ago | 
sensible-med.com | Adam Cifu
When I joined Vinay Prasad, , Marty Makary, and Zubin Demania to launch Sensible Medicine as a shared Substack in the summer of 2022, I would not have guessed I’d eventually be writing about decisions two of those doctors would be making at the FDA. As John and I wrote a couple of weeks ago, we are excited to see what Vinay will do as the Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the FDA.
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3 weeks ago | 
sensible-med.com | Vinay Prasad |Adam Cifu |John Mandrola
This is a long one! 83 minutes. This is the second podcast in which we answer questions from a our “ask us anything” post. We recorded this one before our most recent podcast — kind of like Abbey Road and Let it Be — so we were still graced by Vinay’s presence. In fact, we recorded it in his studio. We still have about a half dozen questions to answer; we will cover those on an upcoming podcast. Enjoy.
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3 weeks ago | 
sensible-med.com | Adam Cifu
Following up with another 35 “diseases just learned.” Please look back to last week’s intro if you are just coming to this series. Like Part I, this is a gift to our paid subscribers.
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3 weeks ago | 
sensible-med.com | Vinay Prasad |Adam Cifu |John Mandrola
The most common question we get asked is: is there a course on how to become better at critically reading medical research. Here it is!This is the second of 9 videos that we recorded as part of a course on clinical appraisal, and there will be many more to come. This and future videos will be made available as a thank you to paid subscribers.
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1 month ago | 
sensible-med.com | Adam Cifu
Every profession requires lifelong learning. Whether you are a plumber, an agent, a police officer, or a general internist, you need to keep learning throughout your career. Nobody leaves training with knowledge sufficient for a career. You need to learn to keep up and because true expertise only develops through deliberate practice. I learn from colleagues and journal articles. However, the learning I enjoy most is practice-based.
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1 month ago | 
sensible-med.com | Adam Cifu
One of the many great things about being a general internist is the exposure to the wondrous diversity of humanity. I am a better person for having brief, but intense, visits with some 50 people every week. These people grew up all over the world and have worked in every imaginable field. I see people barely scraping by financially and people with unimaginable wealth. I care for 90-year-olds who look 60 and 60-year-olds who look 90.
