Team, and Zappin' and Zach here for med geeks.

Welcome back, so I forgot to tell you we have one more acid-based disorder to discuss.

I'm just kidding with you.

So we've talked about many different topics over the past three months. I hope everyone

is at least picked up some clinical pearls from my podcast that you're using on a daily

basis now. If not, let me know because that means I'm not doing a good job and I owe you a clinical pearl.

So today I want to switch gears and I want to go from talking about the normal case discussion about a certain medical topic and focus on another aspect of medicine which I think is highly, highly important.

So prior to PA school, I was a clinical research coordinator at Mass General Hospital in Boston Mass.

I was lucky enough to work with some of the world's leading researchers in cardiac imaging.

At the time, all the actual medicine talk was way over my head.

However, one thing I did learn was how to approach a medical paper

and I learned a lot about the basics of biostatistics.

This skill is often overlooked and many people I learned a lot about the basics of biostatistics.

This skill is often overlooked,

and many people just quickly read the abstract

and just to get the gist of the paper.

Maybe it's because they don't have time.

Maybe they don't care. Or maybe it's because they don't know how to actually read

the paper and dissect it. Well, you should make the time and you should care because research

drives medicine, and it's your duty to stay on top of the newest

evidence-based medicine out there for your patients. So after today's podcast you're

going to be a pro on how to pick up a paper, approach it, dissect it, and get the most bang for your buck so that you can say, hey, maybe I can use this in practice tomorrow.

...