John Mandrola, MD
@drjohnm
Heart rhythm doc, writer for @Medscape, host of This Week in Cardiology podcast, cyclist, #MedicalConservative. The more you see, the harder medicine gets
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Periodic reminder to listen to #Thisweekincardiology
By John Mandrola, MD
You don't have to be a cardiologist to enjoy it. One of the best podcast I know about how to think about
Studies
Truth
Cause and effect
#sensiblemedicine
Chelation Did Not Work But Science Did: When the TACT 2 trial failed to confirm TACT 1, the winner was science
open.substack.com/pub/sensibleme… via John Mandrola, MD
Excellent essay from Vinay Prasad MD MPH on why whole body MRI for cancer screening is almost certainly not going to save your life and could easily cause you much unneeded pain.
Christina Farr, if you do a follow-up invite Vinay!
drvinayprasad.com/p/why-you-shou…
JACC published my first academic paper. 1997.
Dr K, I wish you and your team well. I pledge to give the new JACC the ultimate fairness every Friday on #TWICPodcast
Truth be told. I’m hoping for some of that old-school Lown Institute type of critical appraisal —you remember
Had my first FRAIL-AF type query recently. Great to put evidence into action and advise against switching elderly patient stable on VKA onto a DOAC. Thanks to John Mandrola, MD for highlighting this interesting study.
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The reason why the 2/3rds who said yes are correct is found in Erik van Zwet study on the overestimation of effect in RCTs evidence.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.105…
Chance of replicating a significant P w an RCT that had a p = 0.04 is about 37%
cc Sanjay Kaul
J.D. Corl, MD, FACC, FSCAI Pinarello John Mandrola, MD Pat McAfee No way! I thought I was the only cardiologist that listened to Pat McAfee and John Mandrola, MD
Wish could do a podcast on cardiology in the McAfee style