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Biostatistics

Prostate Cancer Screening: More Trouble Than It's Worth?

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 12.10.2011 | Healthy Living
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David Katz, M.D.

Please stop asking whether or not men have prostate cancer by using this test, in other words, because it is tantamount to asking for trouble.

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Your Inner Statistician, Revisited: A You-Centered View Of Medical Testing

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 10.24.2011 | Healthy Living
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David Katz, M.D.

Many doctors, particularly young doctors, come to view test results as if handed down direct from the heavens -- and forget that context greatly alters their implications. It shouldn't be your burden to defend against this -- but alas, it is.

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