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268. Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6

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The Rise of Randomized Control Trials in Medicine

In many cases, you have no idea. The feedback loop in medicine is often very, very sloppy. With a well constructed, randomized, controlled trial, you can get an idea. Vanei presad again, i think, in my mind, that kind of set us on a different course was a study called cast. Cast stands for cardiac a rhythmia suppression trial.

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