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6 - The Number Needed to Treat

6 - The Number Needed to Treat

FromBedside Rounds


6 - The Number Needed to Treat

FromBedside Rounds

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Length:
16 minutes
Released:
Sep 19, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode of Bedside Rounds, we discuss how risks and benefits are communicated by scientists and physicians, and why those numbers you see in advertisements and newspapers might not be the clearest way to express risk.
Released:
Sep 19, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (86)

Bedside Rounds is a storytelling podcast about medical history and medicine’s intersections with society and culture. Host Adam Rodman seeks to tell a few of these weird, wonderful, and intensely human stories that have made modern medicine.