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  • 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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www.ob-efm.com

www.wonderfulpregnancy.com

 

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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

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Levels of Evidence
Evidence Based Medicine Stats

Levels of Evidence

Published on : 8 Apr 2018
Published by : Howard Herrell, MD

If you read (or produce) scientific literature, you are hopefully aware of and use some system to appreciate how good a particular type of study is. Most "Levels of Evidence"

Regression to the Mean
Evidence Based Medicine Stats

Regression to the Mean

Published on : 27 Dec 2017
Published by : Howard Herrell, MD

In life, we don’t tend to notice the mediocre or the average; rather, we notice extremes. We never think about the weather on an average day, but we always take

Risk, or The Game of Life?
Cognitive Bias OB/Gyn Stats

Risk, or The Game of Life?

Published on : 11 Jul 2016
Published by : Howard Herrell, MD

The ideal physician is not risk-averse but rather is a risk-mitigator. Risk is inescapable. We have to be able to understand risks in real terms and also be able to

Bias

Some Thoughts About Science
Cognitive Bias Evidence Based Medicine Other Stuff

Some Thoughts About Science

Published on : 17 Sep 2018
Published by : Howard Herrell, MD

I get frustrated daily with the misuse of science by both scientists and non-scientists. Every good social media argument has someone claiming "science" in a gotcha moment, usually not understanding

Problem Solving: Free Your Mind
Cognitive Bias Evidence Based Medicine Teaching Tools

Problem Solving: Free Your Mind

Published on : 12 May 2018
Published by : Howard Herrell, MD

Here was a conversation in recent car ride: Daughter: Penny has 5 children, 1st is January, 2nd kid February, 3rd is called March, 4th is April. What is the name of

How to Read Headlines
Cognitive Bias

How to Read Headlines

Published on : 1 May 2018
Published by : Howard Herrell, MD

Headlines are everything. They frame the way we read an article, how we remember it, and whether we choose to read it in the first place. In the world of

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