How each of us practices medicine is uniquely shaped by our experiences. Christine, a nurse practitioner as well as former EMT & Army medic, speaks with medical professionals from all specializations across the globe about the stories that have influenced how they practice medicine. Paramedics, nurses, doctors, & more recount tales that range from funny to wild to profoundly moving, but no matter the role, culture, or country, all are working to make humanity better any way they can.
Episodes
Monday Mar 18, 2019
Anecdotes on Biases & Quackery
Monday Mar 18, 2019
Monday Mar 18, 2019
Storytelling is a powerful part of human culture as clearly evidenced by the power of podcasts particularly this one, which focuses on medical anecdotes to both entertain & inform. However, the emotional response of anecdotes can be used to spread misinformation & create harm when used to contradict evidence based medicine by anti-vaccine or so called “alternative medicine” advocates.
Lucky for us, Dr. Jonathon Howard, a neurologist & psychiatrist, who has written a book on critical thinking & cognitive biases in medicine joins the podcast this week to explain why are brains like stories & how that can be used against us.
Books Referenced in this episode:
Cognitive Errors & Diagnostic Mistakes: A Case-Based Guide To Critical Thinking in Medicine by Dr. Jonathon Howard, MD
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319932231
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Dr. Oliver Sacks, MD
Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery, Compiled by the Journal of the American Medical Association
https://archive.org/details/nostrumsquackery00amerrich
Dollars for Docs Website
https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/
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