Deans' stroke musings: It Ain't Necessarily So: Why Much of the Medical Literature Is Wrong

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, September 13, 2014

It Ain't Necessarily So: Why Much of the Medical Literature Is Wrong

I can't always distinguish good vs. bad research, that's why I need a medical person smarter than me that can analyze papers. I'm sure your neurologist isn't any better than me at it, but I doubt s/he has hired an analyst to keep them up-to-date on the latest research. Easy question to find out. 'What are the 10 most important research findings on stroke in the last 10 years? That you are using for your stroke patients?'
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/829866#2
In 1897, eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote to the New York Sun to ask, "Is there a Santa Claus?"^[1] Virginia's father, Dr. Phillip O'Hanlon, suggested that course of action because "if you see it in the Sun, it's so." Today many clinicians and health professionals may share the same faith in the printed word and assume that if it says it in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) or JAMA or The Lancet, then it's so.
Putting the existence of Santa Claus aside, John Ioannidis^[2] and others have argued that much of the medical literature is prone to bias and is, in fact, wrong.
Given a statistical association between X and Y, most people make the assumption that X caused Y. However, we can easily come up with 5 other scenarios to explain the same situation.

5 more pages at the link.