David Spitzer
@drdavidspitzer
GP. Likes medicine. Dislikes Too Much Medicine.
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06-10-2016 06:43:17
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There’s been a big increase in lab testing in UK medicine… knock-on effect is the massive increase in GP workload. Plug for useful website for GPs to consider NNTs and evidence base for interventions: gpevidence.org created by Julian Treadwell
The eminent Michael Baum introducing a rare but sorely needed note of balance into the public discourse about cancer, which even on intelligent and discursive fora such as BBC Radio 4 Today’s podcast gets treated as a black & white, ‘catching it early simply has to be good’ issue
New research from us! First study to co-design and test the efficacy of evidence-based information about the AMH test. Dr Devora Lieberman Kirsten McCaffery Jesse Jansen jadoust Ben Willem Mol Sarah Lensen A/Prof Michelle Peate Wiser Healthcare Sydney Health Literacy Lab doi.org/10.1093/humrep…
Why you may not need a hlth checkup every year. A physician Dan Morgan proposes a radical but necessary idea: medical minimalism statnews.com/2024/08/23/med… Susan Bewley David Spitzer Margaret McCartney
This is upsetting to see Dr Nikita Kanani (she/her) . This isn’t an evidence based intervention. It is profiting on promises that can’t be kept. The reason this stuff isn’t offered in the nhs (beyond standard BP/cholesterol etc) is to do with the lack of evidence for it.
Can I have blood tests to check everything is alright? Why you don't need to or shouldn't do bmj.com/content/382/bm… via David Spitzer & Jessica Watson et al HT Sam Finnikin Susan Bewley
Ash Paul David Spitzer alf collins Margaret McCartney greg fell FFPH Sebastian Rees Richard Sloggett NHS England Dr Nikita Kanani (she/her) Susan Bewley 𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic Craig Nikolic David Oliver RCGP Victoria Tzortziou Brown Lord Bethell Professor Adam Taylor Uni Fribourg Arnaud Chiolero The Lancet Over-diagnosis was first introduced as a term in the 70s. Over 40 years of countless articles, trials, reviews, conferences, and books have failed to overcome the lure of “early is always best” What more will it take? Another 30 years of teaching EBM?: cebm.ox.ac.uk/news/views/cel…