# tales wards — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover tales wards. Page: Feed: --- ## [Tales from the Wards 2.0](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/tales-from-the-wards-20) _2026-07-28 · Anil Makam · A&Ox2_ Six real cases. Could AI Have helped? ## [It's So Hard...](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/its-so-hard) _2026-07-23 · Oanh Kieu Nguyen · A&Ox2_ If you grew up in the 1990s, is your brain already singing the next line?A&Ox2 is a reader-supported publication. ## [Can Autonomous Vehicles Save Lives?](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/can-autonomous-vehicles-save-lives) _2026-07-22 · Anil Makam · A&Ox2_ From Waymo's safety data to the launch of our AVERT Study ## [Reflections on the Retraction of the Time-of-day Immunotherapy Trial](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/reflections-on-the-retraction-of) _2026-06-26 · Anil Makam · A&Ox2_ Profound Sadness for the State of Science ## [Metformin for Prediabetes: Treating the Label, Not the Patient](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/metformin-for-prediabetes-treating) _2026-05-20 · Anil Makam · A&Ox2_ Prediabetes is useful as a risk marker. It is a signal to take metabolic health seriously. But metformin for prediabetes is a different claim. It says that changing the timing of a diagnosis is itself enough to justify medication. That is where the logic breaks. ## [Tales from the Wards 1.0](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/tales-from-the-wards-10) _2026-04-22 · Anil Makam · A&Ox2_ A potpourri of clinical pearls from my practice ## [Flawed Research is Not Hypothesis Generating](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/flawed-research-is-not-hypothesis) _2026-04-08 · Anil Makam · A&Ox2_ An Example of Thickened Fluids in Dementia ## ['Learners' or 'Doctors'?](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/learners-or-doctors) _2026-03-26 · Oanh Kieu Nguyen · A&Ox2_ Rethinking language and responsibility in medical training ## [Hyponatremia: Does Correcting it Help?](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/hyponatremia-does-correcting-it-help) _2026-03-24 · Anil Makam · A&Ox2_ Hyponatremia reliably predicts bad outcomes. But does correcting it fix them? A new randomized trial makes that uncomfortable truth harder to ignore. ## [If Jesus Practiced Medicine Today, He'd Only Generate 68.27 wRVUs](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/if-jesus-practiced-medicine-today) _2026-03-19 · Anil Makam · A&Ox2_ A satirical commentary on valuing what is easiest to measure, not what matters most ## [Meet Claude, the AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/h9l6TX7M344k) _2026-03-19 · **Sponsored**_ Conversational AI to answer questions, brainstorm ideas, and help with tasks. ## [Resmetirom: a new drug that is already outclassed](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/resmetirom-a-new-drug-that-is-already) _2026-03-17 · Anil Makam · A&Ox2_ Why doctors should abandon the new shiny drug for MASH in favor of a far superior drug class. ## [Conferencing is Better in the Public Square](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/conferencing-is-better-in-the-public) _2026-03-12 · Anil Makam · A&Ox2_ If the goal in academia is exchange, networking, and collaborations, then we should stop pretending the hotel ballroom is the only or even the best way to achieve that. ## [It Is Time for Hospitalists to Own Our Expertise](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/it-is-time-for-hospitalists-to-own) _2026-03-10 · Oanh Kieu Nguyen · A&Ox2_ Defining the expertise at the heart of hospital medicine ## [Wolf in Academic’s Clothes](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/wolf-in-academics-clothes) _2026-03-05 · Anil Makam · A&Ox2_ The Message of Eric Topol’s Peter Attia Takedown ## [How Good is Your Doctor? Medicine Doesn’t Know](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/how-good-is-your-doctor-medicine) _2026-03-03 · Oanh Kieu Nguyen · A&Ox2_ We recognize great doctors when we see them, but our systems measure the wrong things ## [Guidelines Schmidelines Part 2](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/guidelines-schmidelines-part-2) _2026-02-25 · Anil Makam · A&Ox2_ The humility of uncertainty & WikiGuidelines by Dr. Spellberg [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/189061400/3697e2be17e86f393df938dfeb0e84d0.mp3) ## [Guidelines Schmidelines Part 1](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/guidelines-schmidelines-part-1) _2026-02-24 · Anil Makam · A&Ox2_ Watch now | Why Following Guidelines is Not Synonymous with EBM [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/188695989/0dd2f8281bd9e05b2fbf28339c419270.mp3) ## [Why Shorter is Better for Antibiotics](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/why-shorter-is-better-for-antibiotics) _2026-02-19 · Anil Makam · A&Ox2_ Watch Dr. Spellberg now | UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine Grand Rounds at San Francisco General Hospital [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/188467820/3bdbd69ecf928514dfb2b402165f2f95.mp3) ## [Retract Until Verified](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/retract-until-verified) _2026-02-17 · Anil Makam · A&Ox2_ The Implausibly Large Effect in the Recent Time-of-Day Immunotherapy Trial ## [Sync bookmarks across every browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3s7igcmatmkx) _2026-02-17 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync across Chrome, Firefox and Safari; built-in ad and tracker blocker. ## [Uproar Over Moderna’s Flu Vaccine Cancellation. Crickets Over Evidence.](https://aaox2.substack.com/p/uproar-over-modernas-flu-vaccine) _2026-02-14 · Anil Makam · A&Ox2_ What Moderna's data tell us about the efficacy of their mRNA vaccine