All posts unless otherwise noted are by Howard Herrell, MD, FACOG.
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Other stuff I would update if I weren’t so lazy:
Recent Posts
- A Patient’s Guide to Picking an OB/GYN
- OB Potpourri 5.0
- Better Birth Control Counseling
- Updates on Vaginal Hysterectomy
- Some Thoughts About Science
- No, you shouldn’t eat your placenta…
- Yes, Vitamin D is a Scam
- Stop Making Me Look Bad, Guys
- The Quadruple Aim and Perverse Incentives
- How To Be An Amazing Doctor In One Easy Step
- Aluminum Doesn’t Cause Autism
- Problem Solving: Free Your Mind
- Should I Vaccinate My Child?
- How to Read Headlines
- Male Circumcision
- Four Tips for Preventing Perineal Trauma: The Grip
- Subchorionic Hematomas, Lakes, and all that Jazz…
- Levels of Evidence
- Ten Things I’ve Learned About Maternal Mortality
- Four Tips for Removing a Nexplanon
- The Serena Syndrome
- Physician Competency
- Four Tips for Using A Quantitative HCG Test
- Help! How Can I Do Fewer Cesareans?!!?
- Have We ARRIVEd at 39 Weeks?
- Birth Control and Weight Gain
- Regression to the Mean
- Things Science Has Proven
- The Medical Hype Cycle (The Herrell Curve?)
- Fact Check: Mercury Content in Flu Shot
- Williams Obstetrics and Male Chauvinism
- Child Mortality
- Historic Decline in Maternal Mortality
- Four Tips for Performing a Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)
- IUD Facts
- Fact Check: Caffeine and Fibrocystic Change?
- Simplified Vaginal Hysterectomy: The Book
- The AMH Syndrome
- Afraid of anesthesia? Read this … (or the story of Victoria)
- Afraid of Pitocin? Read this… (or the story of Charlotte)
- It’s All in the Counseling …
- Four Tips to Reduce Pain After Laparoscopy
- Four Tips for Correctly Diagnosing Uterine Anomalies
- How I Lost 40 Pounds
- OB Potpourri 4.0
- What Amelia Earhart Teaches Us About Medical Evidence
- Four Tips to Reduce Your Cesarean Delivery Rate
- Four Tips for Correctly Diagnosing Vaginitis
- Four Tips for Initial Laparoscopic Entry
- Four Tips for Easy Postpartum Tubal Ligation
- Four Tips to Avoid Air Knots
- Dieting Myths
- Fact Checkers
- No More Zero Days
- Can We Change a Mind?
- Where Does the Fat Go?
- Antenatal Testing
- Prophylactic Salpingectomy?
- Five Neat Tricks to Live Longer and Healthier Lives
- The Hippocratic Oath
- Fake News (aka, Ob/Gyn Clickbait)
- The Facts Speak For Themselves
- Ethical Considerations of Childhood Vaccination
- Is Howard Lazy?
- Four Types of Physicians
- Bed Rest
- Unintended Consequences
- When Did Breastfeeding Become a Disease?
- From One Extreme to the Other…
- OB Potpourri 3.0
- Dreams of a Better World…
- Appeal to Experience, or Insight versus Awareness
- Oh my …. Really?
- An Air of Legitimacy, A Hindrance to Progress
- Is Hydration Useful for the Management of Oligohydramnios? Or Should We Even Care?
- Prevailing Bias
- Secrets of the Menstrual Cycle
- Post-Truth, Alt-Health
- Speed in Surgery
- The Lost Purpose of a Chief Resident
- Data Dreams
- To Cysto or Not To Cysto ….
- Four Tips for A Non-Descending Uterus
- What’s Your Best Guess?
- Paved With Good Intentions … Or, How Do I Do A Vaginal Delivery?
- Ten Ways To Reduce The Cost of Healthcare
- People Still Matter
- I Read It On The Internet…
- It’s Perfect! Very accurate, with a low false positive rate…
- What’s Old Is New Again
- The Percentile Fallacy
- Sample Operative Notes
- How Should I Do A Breast Exam?
- Four Tips For Vaginal Hysterectomy
- What The 2016 Election Can Teach Us About Science
- The Financial Impact of Not Utilizing Evidence-Based Medicine
- Which Drug Should I Prescribe?
- Debiasing Strategies
- Cognitive Bias
- Trends…
- How Do I Know If A Study Is Valid?
- Lessons Learned From Magnesium
- Magnesium (Part 3): To Prevent Cerebral Palsy
- Magnesium (Part 2): To Prevent Preterm Labor
- Magnesium (Part 1): To Prevent Maternal Seizure
- Quote
- Simplified Vaginal Hysterectomy
- Penis Captivus and The Cult of Personality in Medicine
- The Real Risks of Hormone Replacement Therapy
- Post-Tubal Ligation Syndrome (Or, Post-IUD Syndrome)
- What Birth Control Should I Prescribe?
- One Too Many?
- What Should Be Done At Routine Prenatal Visits?
- The Myth of the Black Cloud and Other Superstitions
- Risk, or The Game of Life?
- Will The Real Cowboy Please Stand Up? Harmful Practices and Harmful Culture in OB/Gyn
- To Induce or Not To Induce: The 39 Weeks “Debate” (Part 3)
- To Induce or Not To Induce: The 39 Weeks “Debate” (Part 2)
- To Induce or Not To Induce: The 39 Weeks “Debate” (Part 1)
- Should We Administer Betamethasone to Women at Risk of Late Preterm Birth?
- The Physician As Teacher
- A Little Skepticism, Please
- A Tale of Two Teachers
- Cancer Screenings and Over-diagnosis: Pick The Outcome That Matters
- How Do I Make a Differential Diagnosis? Or, Pelvic Pain
- It’s Either Normal … Or It Isn’t? Watch Out For The Drift
- Reducing Cesareans Infographic
- Clinical Reasoning: The Scope of the Problem
- How Should I Pick a Specialty?
- Reader Questions (#1)
- Words Matter, or When Should I Order Labs for Preeclampsia?
- How and Where You Ask The Question Matters: Confirmation Bias
- You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition
- The Ethics of Deviating From Guidelines
- Quote
- How Do I Diagnose A UTI?
- Teaching Adult Learners: Lessons From Yoda
- Measuring How Well A Test Works, or How To Find a Hipster
- Prenatal Antidepressants and Autism? Mi dispiace!
- Primer: How To Systematically Read A Scientific Paper
- How Do I Diagnose Ruptured Membranes? Bayesian Statistics at its Best
- Odds Ratios Versus Relative Risk
- Do The NHS Birth Recommendations Have Meaning for The US? Or, The Safety of Home Birth
- Power Laws, Decision Making, and Anxiety
- How Should I Do A Cesarean Delivery?
- What Should Be Done At The Yearly Visit?
- The Illusion of Causality
- Teaching Tool: The Stanford Medicine 25
- Important Paper: The PORTO Study
- Absolute Risk Versus Relative Risk: A Clinical Example
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