Episode 192: Medical Update 192-- Risk Calculators, Aspirin vs Clopidogrel, Routine Check up, Kiwi

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00572-9/fulltext
Old calculators use old studies and can over exaggerate the calculated effect

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33970197/
We know when to start medication but it is so hard to prospectively know when to stop medication like anticoagulation

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34074830/
2 Kiwi a day will increase your bowel movements

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34100866/
We want to believe routine checkups work but realistically they don't work for patient oriented outcomes--but they make people 'feel good'-- what we do isn't always the doing, it's just being there

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01063-1/fulltext
DAPT following a stent-- but then just maybe we should stay with plavix and not aspirin