Sensible Medicine
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This Fortnight in Medicine XXII
39 mins; March 24, 2026
This Fortnight in Medicine XXI
35 mins; March 11, 2026
Going Beyond "AI in Medicine"
24 mins; March 04, 2026
This Fortnight in Medicine XX
39 mins; February 25, 2026
Alternative Modalities for Breast Cancer Screening
36 mins; February 18, 2026
This Fortnight in Medicine XIX
44 mins; February 11, 2026
This Fortnight in Medicine XVIII
45 mins; January 28, 2026
Friday Reflection 56: Comments that Stuck
7 mins; January 23, 2026
When to treat (or not treat) a high cholesterol
39 mins; January 18, 2026
This Fortnight in Medicine XVII
45 mins; January 14, 2026
This Fortnight in Medicine XVI
82 hours 35 mins; December 31, 2025
This Fortnight in Medicine XV
60 hours 40 mins; December 17, 2025
This Fortnight in Medicine XIV
33 mins; December 03, 2025
This Fortnight in Medicine XIII
44 mins; November 19, 2025
This Fortnight in Medicine XII
40 mins; November 05, 2025
This Fortnight in Medicine XI
51 mins; October 22, 2025
This Fortnight in Medicine X
50 mins; October 08, 2025
This Fortnight in Medicine IX
34 mins; September 24, 2025
Friday Reflection 53: Eradicating the Very Important Patient from the Medical Ecosystem
8 mins; September 19, 2025
Friday Reflection 52: The Three Worst Phone Calls of My Career
8 mins; September 12, 2025
This Fortnight in Medicine VIII
45 mins; September 10, 2025
This Fortnight in Medicine VII
39 mins; August 27, 2025
Friday Reflection 50: The Look
6 mins; August 15, 2025
This Fortnight in Medicine VI
35 mins; August 13, 2025
This Fortnight in Medicine V
33 mins; July 30, 2025
This Fortnight in Medicine IV
35 mins; July 16, 2025
Friday Reflection 49: The Patients of 12 Reisman
10 mins; July 11, 2025
This Fortnight in Medicine III
40 mins; July 02, 2025
This Fortnight in Medicine II
38 mins; June 18, 2025
This Fortnight in Medicine
37 mins; June 04, 2025
Ask Us Anything
83 hours 33 mins; May 17, 2025
Vinay at FDA; what's next for Sensible Medicine; ask us anything answers
37 mins; May 08, 2025
How Not to Get Fooled by the Medical Literature - Part 1 - Course Introduction
18 mins; April 30, 2025
Friday Reflection 48: Linguistics, Diagnosis, and Medical Error
6 mins; March 07, 2025
A Conversation with Professor Jeffrey Flier Regarding Changes in NIH Funding
47 mins; February 08, 2025
RFK Jr hearings/ Eulogy Values & NIH delays
37 mins; February 03, 2025
A Conversation with Michael Easter from the TWO/PERCENT
22 mins; January 25, 2025
Friday Reflection 47: Patients Make the Hardest Decisions
6 mins; January 10, 2025
A conversation with Margaret McCartney, MD, PhD regarding evidence-based medicine and conflicts of interest
45 mins; January 08, 2025
UCSF hematology oncology interest group
42 mins; December 29, 2024
Adam Cifu Interviewed by Michael Easter on the TWO/PERCENT Substack and Podcast
38 mins; December 17, 2024
A live taping from Wash U, a Sensible Medicine discussion
45 mins; December 07, 2024
MAHA and Medical Conservatism
49 mins; November 14, 2024
Systematic reviews 101
48 mins; November 13, 2024
Ask me anything
26 mins; October 31, 2024
Friday Reflection 45: Patients
4 mins; October 25, 2024
Sensible medicine ask us anything part 2
37 mins; October 24, 2024
Ask us anything podcast
26 mins; October 17, 2024
Back to Sleep Series in Audio Format
65 hours 46 mins; September 15, 2024
Friday Reflection 44: Diagnostic Enigma
9 mins; September 13, 2024
How can we do better as a county hospital?
41 mins; August 31, 2024
Friday Reflection 43: The Absence of Reassuring Counterfactuals in Clinical Medicine
5 mins; August 30, 2024
What Medical School Looks For and What Medical School Should Look For
29 mins; August 29, 2024
The Retirement of Dr. Mark Siegler
5 mins; July 26, 2024
Friday Reflection 42: Patient Approaches to a Doctor’s Visit
7 mins; July 19, 2024
A Discussion with Professor Venk Murthy on Coronary Artery Disease
26 mins; June 26, 2024
Impella, Mammograms and Med School Fails Students
44 mins; June 25, 2024
Fear and Opioids in Academic Medicine
7 mins; June 21, 2024
A discussion with interventional cardiologist Dr David Cohen on medical evidence, TAVR and stroke prevention
42 mins; June 16, 2024
Adam and I discuss the week's medical news
38 mins; May 29, 2024
Cifu, Prasad, Mandrola
45 mins; May 27, 2024
Friday Reflection #39: What to Expect When You Are Aging
6 mins; May 17, 2024
A Novel Approach to AF Ablation
39 mins; May 16, 2024
Video version of our podcast
41 mins; May 11, 2024
Cifu, Mandrola, Prasad
41 mins; May 10, 2024
A Discussion with Dr. Dena Zeraatkar regarding analytic flexibility in observational studies
22 mins; April 30, 2024
Friday Reflection 38: Yesterday’s Solutions; Today’s Problems
10 mins; April 12, 2024
Yet Another Excellent Explainer About P-Values in Randomized Trials
44 mins; April 04, 2024
Friday Reflection 37: Why I Teach (acceptable and less acceptable reasons)
8 mins; March 08, 2024
Friday Reflection 36: Why Don’t Doctors Want to See Patients?
7 mins; February 02, 2024
New Austrian Study Shows Boosters do NOT reduce COVID19 deaths in people who had COVID
7 mins; January 25, 2024
Math Professor Ben Recht and I Discuss P-values and Confidence Intervals
49 mins; January 18, 2024
A discussion with the primary investigator of the world's first placebo-controlled AF ablation trial
19 mins; December 22, 2023
Mandrola and Prasad are back
50 mins; December 17, 2023
Mandrola and Prasad are back
49 mins; December 17, 2023
Friday Reflection 35: Four Who Fired Me
9 mins; December 15, 2023
Friday Reflection 32: The Trauma of Not Dying Alone
7 mins; November 03, 2023
Soren Diederichsen on Atrial Fibrillation Screening
35 mins; November 01, 2023
Andrew Foy has a Different Conclusion on a Big JAMA paper on CV risk reduction
53 mins; October 23, 2023
Friday Reflection 31: Senses, Memories, and Medicine
5 mins; October 20, 2023
Sudden cardiac death and arrhythmias in athletes
54 mins; October 18, 2023
Prasad's lecture gets cancelled/ Cifu Gets COVID
54 mins; October 16, 2023
New Podcast -- Discussion with Rita Redberg and Angela Lu regarding Their Study on Conflict of Interest
35 mins; October 05, 2023
Foy and Mandrola Talk Coronary Calcium and a New Super-Exciting Approach to Medical Education
64 hours 50 mins; September 27, 2023
Foy and Mandrola Discuss AF, AF-Ablation, Sham-controls, Evidence Translation and Heterogenous Treatment Effects
40 mins; September 19, 2023
Coumadin beats DOAC, ECMO fails, When RCTs needed, Bad COVID Policy
48 mins; September 10, 2023
Friday Reflection 29: The Totally Predictable Doctor as Patient Essay
9 mins; September 08, 2023
Sensible Medicine x Vaccine Curious: Tracy Beth Høeg and Christine Stabell Benn compare US & Danish COVID-19 response and child vaccination policy
51 mins; August 29, 2023
Friday Reflection 28: Four of the Things Patients Have Taught Me
11 mins; August 25, 2023
Mandrola & Prasad on Republicans and COVID outcomes, Journals and stenting
42 mins; August 22, 2023
A Conversation with Professor Robert Yeh
46 mins; August 20, 2023
Friday Reflection 27: The Poor Historian
7 mins; August 11, 2023
Friday Reflection #26: General Internal Medicine in the Time of COVID
12 mins; July 28, 2023
Podcast discussion on Nutrition Science, HFpEF and the NYT article on treatment of PAD
35 mins; July 27, 2023
Friday Reflection 25: The Advice I’d Like to Give a Student Entering Medical School
11 mins; July 14, 2023
Friday Reflection 24: I Would Rather Go Back in Time
10 mins; June 30, 2023
Sensible medicine
59 mins; June 27, 2023
Friday Reflection 23: The Ghost Patient Panel
6 mins; June 16, 2023
Medical Conservatism, the ELAN Trial, and Residents Striking
58 mins; June 13, 2023
Medical Evidence, Hype, Cancer Drugs, Conflict
52 mins; June 05, 2023