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

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Ending Medical Reversal

Venai prisad wrote the book on medical reversals. Doctors do something for decades, it's widely believed to be beneficial and then one day a study contradicts that practice. Prisad: "The benefits that we had postulated turned out to be not true or not present"

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