Making Treatment Decisions: Considering the Evidence

In this clip (6 of 10), Drs. Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband tell a story based on one of their research participants—a woman with elevated cholesterol who was considering whether to take a statin medication. This topic offers an opportunity to consider risk-related numbers, and the effects of stories about fellow patients. The speakers explain how the same data can be framed different ways, affecting decision making. Caution is needed when examining numbers presented about medical treatments.
This clip is part of the lecture "When Experts Disagree: The Art of Medical Decision Making,” by Drs. Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband, an oncologist and endocrinologist respectively and a husband-and-wife team. Both are faculty members at Harvard Medical School, where Dr. Groopman is Recanati chair of medicine and Dr. Hartzband is assistant professor of medicine.
This lecture, given at NIH in 2015 as the sixth annual Stephen E. Straus Lecture in the Science of Complementary Health Therapies, is part of the NCCIH Online Continuing Education Series. Free CME/CEU credit is available to health professionals (see http://nccih.nih.gov/training/videolectures).

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