Talk Xmas Evidence

Welcome to the festive talk evidence, giving you a little EBM to take you into the new year. As always Duncan Jarvies is joined by Helen Macdonald (resting GP and editor at The BMJ) and Carl Heneghan (active GP, director of Oxford University ’s CEBM and editor of BMJ Evidence) This month: (2.00) Helen look back at a Christmas article, which investigates a very common superstition in hospitals. (7.55) Carl has his pick of the top 100 altimetric most influential papers of the year. (12.40) We find out all about the preventing overd iagnosis conference which happened earlier in December. (34.15) Helen has her annual rant about misogeny in medicine. Reading list: Q fever—the superstition of avoiding the word “quiet” as a coping mechanism https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6446 Altimetric Top 100 https://www.altmetri c.com/top100/2019/ Fiona Godlee’s keynote at Preventing Overdiagnosis https://www.preventingoverdiagnosis.net/ Gender differences in how scientists present the importance of their research: observational studyhttps://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6573
Source: The BMJ Podcast - Category: General Medicine Authors: Source Type: podcasts