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.
Too much medicine: journalists fail to question new colorectal cancer screening guidelines
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…
A Chat with Distinguished Professor Gordon Guyatt
Gordon Guyatt discusses Canada's national healthcare system and what it would be like if young people did not have national healthcare.
Jeanne Lenzer: Big Data’s big bias
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…
Too Much Medicine: the opioid epidemic
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…
Too Much Medicine: “My Brief Trip to Cancerland” by Jennifer Weiner
Read Jennifer Weiner's opinion piece, "My Brief Trip to Cancerland", discussing her experiences after a routine mammogram and biopsy.
Steven Woloshin and Lisa Schwartz: Overcoming overuse: the way forward is not standing still
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…
Jeanne Lenzer: Health care journalists should disclose their sources’ COI
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,…
Gordon Guyatt: Public health journals’ requirements for authors to disclose funding and COI
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…
Peter Gøtzsche – Why you should usually avoid cancer screening
Watch this video presentation by Peter Gøtzsche, from the conference "What Is so Special About Cancer? Perspectives from Clinical Research, Philosophy and Social Sciences".