Danny Huges and Saurabh Jha discuss a JAMA paper: A comparison of diagnostic imaging ordering patterns between advanced practice clinicians and primary care physicians following office-based evaluation and management visits ..read more

Host Saurabh Jha discusses the book "An American Sicness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back" with author and editor in chief of Kaiser Health News Elizabeth Rosenthal ..read more

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in their landmark report - To Err is Human - estimated that the number of deaths from medical errors is 44 ,000 to 98, 000. The report ushered the Quality and Safety Movement, which became a dominant force in all hospitals. Yet the number of deaths from medical errors climbed. It is now touted to be the 3rd leading cause of death. How easy is it to precisely quantify the number of deaths from medical errors? Not many physicians challenged the methodologies of the IOM report. Some feared that they'd be accused of "making excuses for doctors." Many sim ..read more

Are Machines coming for Radiologists? How much of radiology should be taken over by AI? Saurabh Jha asks guest Stephen Borstelmann: How deep is deep learning ..read more

Can we reduce over diagnosis by re-naming disease to less anxiety-provoking makes? For example, if we call a 4.1 cm ascending aorta “ecstasia” instead of “aneurysm” will there be less over-treatment? Saurabh Jha (aka @RogueRad) discusses over diagnosis with Ian Amber, a musculoskeletal radiologist at Georgetown University, Washington ..read more

How easy is it for physicians to choose wisely and reject low value care? Who decides what's wise and what's unwise? In this episode Saurabh Jha (aka @RogueRad) speaks with William Sullivan MD JD. Dr. Sullivan is an emergency physician and an attorney specializing in healthcare issues. Dr. Sullivan represents physicians and has published many articles on legal aspects of medicine. He is a past president of the Illinois College of Emergency Physicians and a past chair and current member of the American College of Emergency Physicians' Medical Legal Committee ..read more

Saurabh Jha (@RogueRad) speaks with Professor Jeffrey Flier who was the 21st Dean of Harvard Medical School, on wide ranging topics including growing up in the Bronx, reproducibility crisis, research fraud, health policy, and intellectual diversity. Professor Flier went to Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and completed his training in endocrinology at the National Institutes of Health. He moved north, and became Chief of Diabetes Unit at Beth-Israel Hospital, Boston, spearheading their research. He was Dean of Harvard Medical School between 2007 and 2016. A prolific scientist, Professor Flier ..read more

What does it take to create a decision rule? In this podcast Saurabh Jha (@RogueRad) has a discussion with Robert W. Yeh MD MBA about the deep though and complex statistics involved in creating a decision rules ti guide therapy which have narrow risk-benefit calculus, specifically a rule for how long patients should continue dual anti-platelat therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention (1). They also discuss the motivation behind the legendary, and satirical, parachute RCT published in the recent Christmas edition of the BMJ (2), which delighted satirists all over the world (3). Dr. R ..read more

Saurabh Jha (aka @RogueRad) speaks with Bishal Gyawali MD PhD. Dr. Gyawali obtained his medical degree from Kathmandu. He received a scholarship to pursue a PhD in Japan. Dr. Gyawali's work focuses on getting cheap and effective treatment to under developed parts of the world. Dr. Gyawali is an advocate for evidence-based medicine. He has published extensively in many high impact journals. He coined the term "cancer groundshot. He was a research fellow at PORTAL. He is currently a scientist at the Queen's University Cancer Research Institute in Kingston, Ontario ..read more

Taj M. Kattapuram, MD and Sonia C. Gupta, MD explore the gender demographics of Radiologists and medical students entering radiology ..read more