Random bits:
1. I don’t have much to say on it, but a nice paper in the NEJM looks at publication bias in antidepressant trials — most negative trials get squashed or spun into positive results, positive trials almost all get published. Robin Hanson is unsurprised, and Scott Aberegg gives helpful hints for the skeptical clinician.
2. Elsewhere in the Journal, a nice piece on foreign medical graduates, who face tremendous discrimination without much evidence supporting the usual attitude that they’re worse doctors than the rest of us.
3. I missed that Slate had taken on the forced rectal exam lawsuit last week. Here’s GruntDoc on the same, plus real world experience (HT: KevinMD).
4. One thing I don’t understand is the so-called primary care crisis. If people want it, they’ll pay for it. If they don’t they won’t. It’s only a crisis if you think you should be payed to do something nobody wants to pay you to do.
5. Now reading The Logic of Life. Interesting bit from ch. 1 — men who have a family member with HIV/AIDS are less likely to report attraction to or sex with other men. Why wasn’t this bigger news?
reading the article about the anal assault…i saw red. i think the physician involved should be jailed for battery…for rape, actually. i think he should be listed as a sexual offender.
Comment by catnapping — January 22, 2008 @ 8:19 pm