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What does a positive COVID-19 test result mean?

By Matthew Rensberry, MD May 1, 2020 September 1, 2020

What does a positive COVID-19 test result mean? I would like to provide context on what a positive (or negative) COVID-19 test result means. In short, for low prevalence diseases, there are high false positive rates. Without getting too much into the weeds, I came across this great interactive website …

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The importance of a doctor who understands medical literature

By Matthew Rensberry, MD August 23, 2018 August 23, 2018

This article, published Aug 2, 2018, demonstrates why it is important to have a doctor who understands evidence based medicine (EBM), the limitations of medical literature, and how to interpret study results. I will summarize some of what the article described. This article used the case of literature on anti-depressant …