New paper: Assessing surgeon behavior change after anastomotic leak in colorectal surgery
Authors
Vlad V Simianu, Anirban Basu, Rafael Alfonso-Cristancho, Richard C Thirlby, Abraham D Flaxman, David R Flum
Publication date
2016/10/31
Journal
Journal of Surgical Research
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022480416301962
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Learning in Surgeons
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Try my new visualization guessing game
I made a little game for a seminar on data visualization. Can you test it out for me? http://mybinder.org/repo/aflaxman/iths-communicating-results-visually-2
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Satire is funny
Satirical paper puts evidence-based medicine in the spotlight
http://www.nature.com/news/satirical-paper-puts-evidence-based-medicine-in-the-spotlight-1.19133
Best reference (fictitious, I think): Rawlings, F. & Wilson, B. R. (1999) Inducing minor traumatic injuries in toddlers for the purpose of conducting randomised controlled trials. Techniques in Evidence-Based Medicine (Canada), 2 (5), 328–386.
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More interesting reading in JAMA Oncology
These oncology docs really have to think about communicating risk and the affective aspects of decision making: http://oncology.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2239094
Next I can read ref 1: http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/103/19/1436
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Scratching the surface of “Psychology in Patient-Physician Communication”
This short note is interesting, but I think there is a lot more to be said (and to learn) on the matter of health communication: http://oncology.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2294967
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WEIRD View of Human Nature
I keep thinking of this article: https://www.sciencemag.org/content/328/5986/1627.full
Don’t generalize too much from WIERDos
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Interesting read: Why Stochastic Can Be a Dirty Word
A taxonomy of these public responses is apparent: relief (as predicted by the authors of the article) that they did nothing to give themselves cancer, skepticism about the author’s motives, doubt about the accuracy of the science, a belief that the science must be wrong because cancer cannot be random, and anguish about their cancer being deprived of meaning. The last 2 responses often appear together.
http://jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jamaoncol.2015.0786
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Healthy Algorithms 