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What Does it Mean if Primary Care Doctors Get the Answers Wrong About Screening Stats?

Elaine Schattner, MD

The new findings have no bearing on whether or not cancer screening is cost-effective or life-saving. What the study does suggest is that med school math requirements should be upped and rigorous, counter to the trend

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Vicious Verbiage Targets Cancer Patients’ Voices, at Cardiobrief

Elaine Schattner, MD

A journalist who covers medical matters of the heart grabbed my attention on the Fourth of July. In The Voice of the Patient: Time To Bring Out the Muzzle?, Larry Husten at Forbes’ Cardiobrief blog, insinuates that the women who spoke at the FDA’s Avastin hearings are simpletons. In his short strip, Husten skips the possibility […]

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