Medically Clear #1: Evidence is in the Eye of the Beholder

Welcome to The Medically Clear Podcast. You are fortunate enough to join us for our inaugural broadcast. And depending on how this goes, perhaps you will be enjoying our final one as well. I am Dustin Ballard, an emergency physician, writer and researcher and IT is known quite simply as the Fabulous CREATURE of the Literature.

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Each episode I will be asking the CREATURE to pick a notable recent addition to the literature and then flush and suss it out for us. We’ll get to our inaugural article in a moment, but first, CREATURE can you tell us a little bit more about yourself and your prolific podcasting resume?

CREATURE: Well, thanks Dustin. You are too kind. I must admit that today does represent a milestone in my podcasting career…it is in fact my very first one.

DB: Excellent and welcome to the world of podcasting. So CREATURE, our featured science this week is from the British Medical Journal and addresses the topic of how medical evidence is packaged by television media for health consumers. Ok, let’s start our Knowledge Translate segment and ask you to drop a Synopsis Bomb regarding this study.

CREATURE: A synopsis bomb. That sounds explosive. How about instead I just skim through the paper for you and point any methodological land mines I come across?

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