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Showing posts with label vertebroplasty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vertebroplasty. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Vertebroplasty: Absence of Evidence Yields to Evidence of Absence. It Takes a Sham to Discover a Sham but how will I Get a Sham if I Need One?

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"When in doubt, cut it out" is one simplified heuristic (rule of thumb) of surgery. Extension (via inductive thinking) of the obse...
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Professor of Medicine, University of Utah. Former affiliations: Outside Hospital x 7.5 years; Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University; Fellowship & MPH: Johns Hopkins Hospital & Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Residency: The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center; MD: The Ohio State University; BA, Spanish: Miami University, Ohio. All views are my own with NO institutional endorsement.
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