Ending Medical Reversal with Dr. Adam Cifu

Medical Reversal happens when doctors start using a medication, a procedure, or a diagnostic tool without solid evidence that it’s effective. Then, after finding out the medication, procedure, or diagnostic tool doesn’t work or even harms the patient, they eventually stop using it.

Dr. Adam Cifu, author of the highly acclaimed book Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives joins the podcast to discuss the most controversial current examples of medical reversal, why it happens, and why it takes so long to de-adopt ineffective medical procedures, treatments, and medications. He also shares his prescription for how to prevent it.

About Our Guest

Dr. Adam Cifu is a Professor of Medicine and the Associate Dean for Medical School Academics in the Pritzker School of Medicine at The University of Chicago. He is the co-author of the textbook on clinical reasoning for medical students, Symptom to Diagnosis, and Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives. Dr. Cifu also serves as a Deputy Editor of the JAMA Clinical Guideline Synopsis series.