John Mandrola

1 week ago | medscape.com | John Mandrola

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2 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. Well, now there is!This is the first of 9 videos that we recorded as part of a course on clinical appraisal, and there will be many more to come. We call our class: How Not to Get Fooled by the Medical Literature. These are topics that each of us teaches separately, but, here, for the first time, we teach them together, and the whole is more than the sum of the parts.

2 weeks ago | sensible-med.com | John Mandrola

The picture below shows how a treatment can make patients better. I see four ways. The drug/procedure may work biologically. The Voltaire effect relates to his quote saying that the art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. AKA: natural history. Placebo effects can also contribute. I will show you an elegant experiment demonstrating how positive energy and words can add to improvement. Indeed the encounter is an opportunity to heal.

2 weeks ago | medscape.com | John Mandrola

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3 weeks ago | sensible-med.com | Adam Cifu |Vinay Prasad |John Mandrola

In the coming weeks Vinay, John, and I (Adam) will be getting together in person. We are meeting to work on what we think will be some really valuable Sensible Medicine content. Since we will have some time together, we thought it would be a good time to gather some more questions to answer. Same rules as last time: the comments are open to all paid subscribers to pose questions. Ask anything and we promise to take a swing at any and all questions. Photo Credit: Ilkka Kärkkäinen