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I'm going to be talking today about medical reversals, and I'm going to make the audacious claim that perhaps 40% of what we do as health care professionals may be wrong, i.e., does not improve health

outcomes in the patients in whom we deploy it, or actually makes things worse off.

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Disclosure. It's always important to make one's disclosures known, and my disclosures are

right up here. So, on slide two, I'm the author of the book Ending Medical Reversal.

It's published by Johns Hopkins University Press, and that's why I'm very rich. I have research funding through the

Lauren John Arnold Foundation. They fund the work we're doing on reversal. And I'm the host of a podcast

call plenary session, which is available on the iTunes store. We have many, many five-star reviews,

but we have one one-star review, and I want to know

who's responsible. So if anyone finds that out, you let me know. Slide three. But the real

disclosure of this talk is that much of what I tell you is controversial. It's not my purpose

in giving this lecture to disparage or pick on specific medical practices,

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