Things We Do for No Reason, Part 1 (GI Edition)
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
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4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
This week, Dr. Sonpal will be covering part 1 of "Things We Do for No Reason."
Why talk about the things we do for no reason?
Have you ever ordered a test and thought "there has to be something better"? Have you ever found out that a test you used to order has been replaced? If you answered yes to either of these questions (or both), this episode is for you.
In this episode, Dr. Sonpal summarizes what he believes to be the key GI takeaways from "Choosing Wisely: Things We Do For No Reason".
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the med geeks podcast. I'm Dr. Niket Son Paul. I'm an internist and |
| 0:05.2 | gashteremologist and also an educator. I'm the author of Master the Board Step 2 and Step 3 along with my co-authors. And I want to tell you that today we have a special episode. |
| 0:16.0 | It's called Things We Do For No Reason. |
| 0:19.0 | That's right. |
| 0:25.0 | right. |
| 0:26.0 | ever been in the hospital and you're rotating with your preceptor |
| 0:29.0 | or you're actually practicing. |
| 0:31.0 | And you order a test and you know there's got to be something better or you find out that a test you used to order has been replaced. |
| 0:39.0 | Now we can be thankful for the Journal of Hospital Medicine and the Society of Hospital |
| 0:43.8 | Medicine because they created a program called Choosing Wisely, |
| 0:48.1 | Things We Do for No Reason. And what I've done is sort of take all of the gastrointestinal ones and put them all together. |
| 0:55.8 | And if you guys like these, we'll put more together and kind of summarize them. |
| 1:00.1 | All of the data, the original research, the papers that they write, can be found on |
| 1:05.2 | Journal of Hospital Medicine.com. |
| 1:07.4 | And again, I'm just compiling all of this to sort of make it a little multiple |
| 1:12.0 | feedings of the mind, if you you will a little food for thought quite |
| 1:15.3 | literally it is G.I so there's really a pun intended always if you've ever met a |
| 1:19.7 | astroantrologist you know we love our puns. |
| 1:23.0 | The first question always comes up. |
| 1:24.8 | Why are we talking about things we do for no reason? |
| 1:28.0 | Well, it comes down to a few reasons. |
| 1:30.8 | The first, are there unnecessary costs in health care? Yeah. |
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