Marketing Ethics for the Easily Swayed. My new book is out! November 13, 2017. This is an important book in fact, indispensable for women and their families whose lives have been affected by heart disease. Dr Barbara Keddy, Professor Emerita, Dalhousie University, Halifax. You can read Chapter 1 here.

This is a blog about how lack of common sense leads to common nonsense in medical practice. The result is often Status Iatrogenicus, or a vicious cycle of complications, burdensome care, wasted resources, and missed opportunities. Monday, August 3, 2015. Theres nothing more we can do, according to this NYT article.

This is discussion forum for physicians, researchers, and other healthcare professionals interested in the epistemology of medical knowledge, the limitations of the evidence, how clinical trials evidence is generated, disseminated, and incorporated into clinical practice, how the evidence should optimally be incorporated into practice, and what the value of the evidence is to science, individual patients, and society. Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Stochastic dominance of the null hypothesi.