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Dr Skeptic

@doctordoubter

Academic / clinician. Tweets cover medicalization, and the overestimation of benefit and underestimation of harm from medicine. Blog covers it even better.

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I pointed out major error in publication (mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/1…) at IJERPH to Editor and author. (OR for death reported as 0.0; actual OR = 0.76, NS). Author asked journal for correction to be posted. Editor has refused. Is this legit? Surely erratum should be posted?

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Methodology over metrics: current scientific standards are a disservice to patients and society jclinepi.com/article/S0895-…

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New book out October 1 at all good booksellers. Paperback available on pre-order now and electronic available from Oct 1. newsouthbooks.com.au/books/hippocra…

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Increased Early Mortality in Bilateral Simultaneous TKA Using Conventional Instrumentation Compared with Technology Assisted pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34547000/

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‘The Recovery - First, do no harm - The dangers of medical excess’ on #SoundCloud #np soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/th…

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Modern medicine has doctors constantly prescribing, testing, scanning and operating. But many now worry that all that healthcare might be way more than we need. #TheProjectTV

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Yay. Technology helps! Increased early mortality after total knee arthroplasty using conventional instrumentation compared with technology-assisted surgery BMJ_Open bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/5/e…

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Placebo effect of surgery has been over-rated: mainly non-specific effects. Use of Placebo and Nonoperative Control Groups in Surgical Trials ja.ma/3zBRY8x via JAMA Network Open part of JAMA Network

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CRISTAL study out today: aspirin = 2x rate of symptomatic VTE compared to Clexane. Aspirin vs Enoxaparin and Symptomatic Venous Thromboembolism in Hip or Knee Arthroplasty ja.ma/3dSIzBd via JAMA part of JAMA Network

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A meta-epidemiological study found that meta-analyses of the same trials may yield conflicting results sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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boneandjoint.org.uk/article/10.130… via The Bone & Joint Journal Laying out the evidence around VTE prevention in hip and knee replacement, and the need to believe experiment over observation.