Freely Filtered, a NephJC Podcast

Freely Filtered 66: NephJC Summer Book Club

Freely Filtered, a NephJC Podcast

Show Notes

How Medicine Works, and When It Doesn’t Amazon The Filtrate: Joel Topf Josh Waitzman Jennie Lin With Special Guest: Jade Teakell Perry Wilson Editor: Joel Topf Show Notes Understanding Medical Research: Your Facebook Friend is Wrong. Coursera Illusory truth effect (Wikipedia) Number needed to treat (Wikipedia) NNT at MedPage Today: NNT on NephJC Deaths of Despair: Suicide (CDC 2001-2021) Drug Overdose (CDC 2001-2021) Steve Jobs delayed therapy for his treatable pancreatic cancer (ABC News) Residents are unionizing at Mass General Brigham. Here's what you need to know (WBUR) Pi and bouncing bricks (YouTube) Doctors in New Zealand—the only non-U.S. country that allows DTC advertising—call for bans (FiercePharma) The Surgisphere Scandal: What Went Wrong? (The Scientist) VITAL SIGNS: FERTILITY; A Study Links Prayer and Pregnancy (The New York Times) Researcher Pulls His Name From Paper on Prayer and Fertility (The New York Times) Tubular Secretions Josh: Glomerular Nephritis by Thomas Addis (Review in JAMA from 1948) Jennie: The Chicago Marathon Jade: The People’s Hospital (Amazon) Perry: Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Amazon)

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