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Ending Medical Reversal
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There's a whole book about this called ending medical reversal by these two doctors that talks about how procedures keep being done even after science has like totally show they should not be done and more.
The best things said about it
I want to use an example you take from the book because I really it's a profound and it connected to a number of things we've talked about here on the program I want to start with an observation that comes from the book ending medical reversal by Adam Sifu.
Why people recommend it
Ending Medical Reversal by Vinayak K. Prasad and Adam S. Cifu investigates medical practices that persist despite scientific evidence showing they are ineffective or even harmful. On an episode of Modern Wisdom, David Epstein recommended the book, explaining how it documents procedures that continue to be performed despite research clearly demonstrating they should be abandoned. Russ Roberts also brought up the book across multiple episodes of EconTalk. In a conversation about the top episodes of 2023, Roberts noted that Adam Cifu co-authored the book with Vinay Prasad, expressing fascination with its core premise that many common and widely implemented medical procedures fail to work upon closer clinical inspection. Later, during a discussion with Gerd Gigerenzer about gut feelings and decision making, Roberts used an observation from Cifu's book as a profound example connected to the broader themes of the program, contrasting the findings of observational studies with rigorous randomized control trials in modern medicine. The speakers collectively emphasized the critical importance of evaluating established medical interventions through rigorous scientific scrutiny rather than blindly following tradition or routine clinical habits.
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David Epstein there's a whole book about this called ending medical reversal by these two doctors that talks about how pr… 1
“there's a whole book about this called ending medical reversal by these two doctors that talks about how procedures keep being done even after science has like totally show they should not be done and more”
Russ Roberts I want to use an example you take from the book because I really it's a profound and it connected to a numb… 2
“Adam seu had written a book with benai Prasad and the book was ending medical reversal and basically the idea of that book which fascinating me and still does is that many of the most common and implemented medical procedures”
“I want to use an example you take from the book because I really it's a profound and it connected to a number of things we've talked about here on the program I want to start with an observation that comes from the book ending medical reversal by Adam Sifu”
