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For Academic Institutions, Silence is Golden

Sensible Medicine

When a university or academic medical center speaks as an institution, especially when targeting an individual voicing unpopular or contrarian views, the effect will be to intimidate and silence diverse voices, particularly those that do not enjoy tenure or other protections. This is backwards.

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Mandrola Chooses a Favorite Academic Article

Sensible Medicine

Words that pop into my head when thinking about the academic literature: vast, insipid, repetitive, Sisyphus. He had grown the once small Circulation--Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes into a prominent journal in the academic cardiology space. This sentence came seven years before social media and a virus shredded our norms.

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The Alfred Intensive Care Academic Centre

Intensive Blog

Discover collaboration, career opportunities and education possibilities with The Alfred Intensive Care Academic Centre. The post The Alfred Intensive Care Academic Centre appeared first on INTENSIVE. Stay connected and keep checking in for all the latest updates, research, insights and news. Bookmark us and stay in touch.

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Fear and Opioids in Academic Medicine

Sensible Medicine

Respect for the standards by which one is judged is adaptive in academic medicine. The fact that these interactions rattled me is not surprising. I did not gain entry to medical school and attain the rank of professor by rebelling against the powerful.

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Re-Engineering Flow in an Academic Emergency Department

ACEP Now

But inside these charming historic walls is a research-driven, quaternary-care, academic, medical center. Though they were managing the boarding of admitted ED patients better than many academic medical centers, the increasing boarding burden on top of the surge in daily volume created an urgent need to restructure the ED flow.

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Stanford University will host a conference on pandemic planning featuring the usual (COVID-19) suspects

Science Based Medicine

Truly, Stanford has become the "respectable" academic face of efforts to undermine public health. This week, Stanford University announced a conference on pandemic policy that features several of the usual suspects who spread misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Doctors take money from pharmaceutical firms so they die with a slightly bigger number in the bank

Sensible Medicine

Each year, cancer doctors — particularly academic doctors — take tens of millions in pharma payments while simultaneously writing guidelines that mandate the use of these drugs, and simultaneously prescribing them to desperate sick patients who want an objective opinion, but get a biased one instead. million, or 6 to 7.5.

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