Dr Skeptic @doctordoubter
Academic / clinician. Tweets cover medicalization, and the overestimation of benefit and underestimation of harm from medicine. Blog covers it even better. doctorskeptic.blogspot.com.au Australia Joined November 2010-
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boneandjoint.org.uk/article/10.130… via @BoneJointJ Laying out the evidence around VTE prevention in hip and knee replacement, and the need to believe experiment over observation.
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Surgery won’t fix my chronic back pain, so what will? theconversation.com/surgery-wont-f… via @ConversationEDU
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Evidence doesn’t support spinal cord stimulators for chronic back pain – and they could cause harm theconversation.com/evidence-doesn… via @ConversationEDU
Corporate Influences on Science and Health—the Case of Spinal Cord Stimulation jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…
A meta-epidemiological study found that meta-analyses of the same trials may yield conflicting results sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
The 'Decline Effect' for pregablin (Lyrica) effectiveness - new paper out now: dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…
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_current part of @JAMANetwork
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 @JAMANetworkOpen part of @JAMANetwork
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…
Plating vs Closed Reduction for Fractures in the Distal Radius in Older Patients ja.ma/3OLhTAi via @JAMASurgery part of @JAMANetwork
Doctor Skeptic: Book review: Hippocrasy: how doctors are betraying... doctorskeptic.blogspot.com/2022/02/book-r…
Effectiveness of Strong vs Mild Opioid for Subacute Pain After Fractures Managed Surgically ja.ma/30C6qyJ via @JAMANetworkOpen part of @JAMANetwork
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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
How doctors are betraying the Hippocratic oath bmj.com/content/375/bm…
‘The Recovery - First, do no harm - The dangers of medical excess’ on #SoundCloud #np soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/th…
Increased Early Mortality in Bilateral Simultaneous TKA Using Conventional Instrumentation Compared with Technology Assisted pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34547000/
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…
Methodology over metrics: current scientific standards are a disservice to patients and society jclinepi.com/article/S0895-…
I pointed out major error in publication (mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/1…) at @IJERPH_MDPI 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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