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Trade Review
Every doctor should read this book.
—JAMA Internal Medicine
[A]n excellent and realistic discussion of some of the horror stories that occur in medical practice . . . The examples are quite interesting and certainly educational for all readers. Highly recommended.
—Choice
Ending Medical Reversal goes far in teaching medical students and practicing physicians alike how to learn on our own.
—The Lancet
This has to be on the reading list for medical and nursing students.
—Nursing Times
Ending Medical Reversal presents persuasive evidence that many current standard-of-care treatments are probably ineffective or harmful, thoroughly explains how such treatments came to be accepted, and proposes a number of ways to address the general problem (only some of which involve avaricious companies and mercenary physicians) and minimize its impact on a specific patient.
—Journal of Clinical Research Best Practices
Dr. Prasad and Dr. Cifu offer a five-step plan, including pointers for determining if a given treatment is really able to do what you want it to do, and advice on finding a like-minded doctor who won't object to a certain amount of back-seat driving.
—The New York Times
When I describe Ending Medical Reversal as revolutionary, I don't use the term lightly. Go out and read it—right now.
—Common Sense Family Doctor
Should be considered for undergraduate reading lists. Keep a copy in the pharmacy or your briefcase as a great icebreaker or discussion point with other local healthcare professionals.
—The Pharmaceutical Journal

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I
Examples, Frequency, and Consequences
1. What Is Medical Reversal?
2. Subjective Outcomes
Why Feeling Better Is Often Misleading
3. Surrogate Outcomes
4. Screening Tests
5. Systems Failure
6. Finding Flawed Therapies on Our Own
7. The Frequency of Medical Reversal
8. The Harms of Medical Reversal
Today's Patients, Tomorrow's Patients, and the Health-Care Field
Part II
9. A Primer on Evidence-Based Medicine
What Is Evidence in Medicine?
10. What Really Made You Better
When Evidence Gets Complicated
Part III
11. Scientific Progress, Revolution, and Medical Reversal
12. Sources of Flawed Data
13. Why Are We So Attracted to Flawed Therapies?
Part IV
14. Medical Education
A Very Good Place to Start
15. Academic Medicine
16. Reforming the System
The Burden of Proof and Nudging Our Way Past Reversal
17. How Not to Become a Victim of Reversal
18. Beyond Dogma
When Randomized Trials Are Unnecessary
Acknowledgments
Appendix
References
Index

Ending Medical Reversal

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: 09/07/2019
      ISBN13: 9781421429045, 978-1421429045
      ISBN10: 1421429047
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      Every doctor should read this book.
      —JAMA Internal Medicine
      [A]n excellent and realistic discussion of some of the horror stories that occur in medical practice . . . The examples are quite interesting and certainly educational for all readers. Highly recommended.
      —Choice
      Ending Medical Reversal goes far in teaching medical students and practicing physicians alike how to learn on our own.
      —The Lancet
      This has to be on the reading list for medical and nursing students.
      —Nursing Times
      Ending Medical Reversal presents persuasive evidence that many current standard-of-care treatments are probably ineffective or harmful, thoroughly explains how such treatments came to be accepted, and proposes a number of ways to address the general problem (only some of which involve avaricious companies and mercenary physicians) and minimize its impact on a specific patient.
      —Journal of Clinical Research Best Practices
      Dr. Prasad and Dr. Cifu offer a five-step plan, including pointers for determining if a given treatment is really able to do what you want it to do, and advice on finding a like-minded doctor who won't object to a certain amount of back-seat driving.
      —The New York Times
      When I describe Ending Medical Reversal as revolutionary, I don't use the term lightly. Go out and read it—right now.
      —Common Sense Family Doctor
      Should be considered for undergraduate reading lists. Keep a copy in the pharmacy or your briefcase as a great icebreaker or discussion point with other local healthcare professionals.
      —The Pharmaceutical Journal

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      Part I
      Examples, Frequency, and Consequences
      1. What Is Medical Reversal?
      2. Subjective Outcomes
      Why Feeling Better Is Often Misleading
      3. Surrogate Outcomes
      4. Screening Tests
      5. Systems Failure
      6. Finding Flawed Therapies on Our Own
      7. The Frequency of Medical Reversal
      8. The Harms of Medical Reversal
      Today's Patients, Tomorrow's Patients, and the Health-Care Field
      Part II
      9. A Primer on Evidence-Based Medicine
      What Is Evidence in Medicine?
      10. What Really Made You Better
      When Evidence Gets Complicated
      Part III
      11. Scientific Progress, Revolution, and Medical Reversal
      12. Sources of Flawed Data
      13. Why Are We So Attracted to Flawed Therapies?
      Part IV
      14. Medical Education
      A Very Good Place to Start
      15. Academic Medicine
      16. Reforming the System
      The Burden of Proof and Nudging Our Way Past Reversal
      17. How Not to Become a Victim of Reversal
      18. Beyond Dogma
      When Randomized Trials Are Unnecessary
      Acknowledgments
      Appendix
      References
      Index

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