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He’s apparently so important and busy that he has to make these videos while driving in his super car from point A to point B. 15 years ago, this “content” woul

He’s apparently so important and busy that he has to make these videos while driving in his super car from point A to point B. 15 years ago, this “content” would have been a blog post, which we could have skimmed in 30 seconds to get the gist of the counter argument. Now it’s a 10 minute video with no notes, buried behind 2 ads. Next time, give us a 2 sentence summarization of the argument you’re linking.

fantasticshower 4y ago
Can you spare the rest of us and give the aforementioned two sentence summarization?
- TheRealDunkirk 4y ago
  No. I skimmed the video, and couldn’t find the point.
- andreareina 4y ago
  - the claim is absurd on its face: that's more deaths than from road traffic accidents, half as much as from all cancer, and accounts for a significant proportion of the number of people who die in the hospital for all causes (and would be the number one reason - the figures come from studies with methodological issues (non-representative populations, overly-broad criteria for what's counted as a death from medical error)
rdedev 4y ago
Well to be fair to the guy in the video, he is a practicing cardiologist in the UK. https://www.youtube.com/c/MedlifeCrisis/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/MedlifeCrisis/videos Afaik he does mostly videos and dont do blogs. Anyways one argument presented in the video (but dont know if its relevant to this post) is that the datasets used sometimes dont differentiate between medical error and medical harm. Medical harm is where you need to do a particular intervention, but the possible side effects of the intervention leads to the patients death. Furthermore the line between medical harm and medical error is fuzzy especially when you dont have all the information at hand when doing the procedure. The datasets for the papers mentioned in the video were retrospective
james-redwood 4y ago
He's a consultant (the most senior and advanced type of doctor you get here in the UK) cardiologist, meaning that he likely works crazy hours (read 60-80 hours per week and above). He's not a professional content creator.

fantasticshower 4y ago

Can you spare the rest of us and give the aforementioned two sentence summarization?

TheRealDunkirk 4y ago
No. I skimmed the video, and couldn’t find the point.
andreareina 4y ago
- the claim is absurd on its face: that's more deaths than from road traffic accidents, half as much as from all cancer, and accounts for a significant proportion of the number of people who die in the hospital for all causes (and would be the number one reason - the figures come from studies with methodological issues (non-representative populations, overly-broad criteria for what's counted as a death from medical error)

rdedev 4y ago

Well to be fair to the guy in the video, he is a practicing cardiologist in the UK. https://www.youtube.com/c/MedlifeCrisis/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/MedlifeCrisis/videos Afaik he does mostly videos and dont do blogs. Anyways one argument presented in the video (but dont know if its relevant to this post) is that the datasets used sometimes dont differentiate between medical error and medical harm. Medical harm is where you need to do a particular intervention, but the possible side effects of the intervention leads to the patients death. Furthermore the line between medical harm and medical error is fuzzy especially when you dont have all the information at hand when doing the procedure. The datasets for the papers mentioned in the video were retrospective

james-redwood 4y ago

He's a consultant (the most senior and advanced type of doctor you get here in the UK) cardiologist, meaning that he likely works crazy hours (read 60-80 hours per week and above). He's not a professional content creator.