Too much medicine: how doctors’ bias leads to unfair and unsound medical triage
How does one go about rationing care? Read about the various forms of bias that can impact the care patients receive.
How does one go about rationing care? Read about the various forms of bias that can impact the care patients receive.
The American Cancer Society (ACS) has updated its colorectal cancer screening guidelines, lowering the recommended age to start screening from 50 to 45. Why is the ACS recommending that people get…
Gordon Guyatt discusses Canada's national healthcare system and what it would be like if young people did not have national healthcare.
Big data can be used cautiously to examine real world outcomes and to improve surveillance of drug safety. However, critics of the move say that big data are poor for identifying…
What factors have contributed to the North American opioid epidemic? Potential contributors may include "kickbacks", as discussed in this article in the New York Times, or continuing education for physicians…
Read Jennifer Weiner's opinion piece, "My Brief Trip to Cancerland", discussing her experiences after a routine mammogram and biopsy.
In a BMJ Essay, Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin respond to Lisa Rosenbaum’s New England Journal of Medicine article which suggests that "we don’t know how to eliminate wasteful care…
Medical journals require authors to disclose conflicts of interest, but there is no similar policy for transparency in the popular media. Read as Jeanne Lenzer argues that health care journalists,…
Read this study in BMC Public Health by Gordon Guyatt and colleagues, who argue that journals and publishers should consider revising their editorial policies to ensure complete and transparent reporting…
Watch this video presentation by Peter Gøtzsche, from the conference "What Is so Special About Cancer? Perspectives from Clinical Research, Philosophy and Social Sciences".