Healthcare Triage: accessible health videos

December 30, 2016 11:55 AM

Need to explain current healthcare and medical research topics to people around you? Healthcare Triage offers informative and accessible videos on youtube: Obamacare * Is Marijuana Harmful to Health? * Why You Don't Need to Drink Milk * Exercise is NOT the Key to Weight Loss * GMOs * Is Organic Food Better for Your Health? * The Benefits of Paid Sick Leave for Workers, Employers, and Pretty Much Everybody
posted by Foci for Analysis (7 comments total)

Thank you so much for this! I watch Healthcare Triage a lot, but through the marijuana video you linked to, I happened upon the Bayes theorem video. I've long been interested in Bayes Theorem, but don't really have the math brain to use it easily. At the very end of the video, he introduces Fagan's Nomogram, which looks to be the exact Bayes Theorem cheat for diagnostic tests I need! Thank you!
posted by greermahoney at 1:42 PM on December 30, 2016 [6 favorites]

Of note: Dr. Aaron Carroll is also a regular columnist and Healthcare Triage is part of a suite of educational channels implemented and championed by the VlogBrothers.
posted by Eikonaut at 1:59 PM on December 30, 2016 [1 favorite]

Healthcare Triage is part of a suite of educational channels implemented and championed by the VlogBrothers.

If you like HealthCare Triage, I can also recommend (another vlogbrothers production... at least, originally it was) The Brain Scoop.

Back on topic, I also like his from-a-doctor's-perspective stuff, like this one ("When one of Aaron's best friends in medical school returned from an interview for a surgical residency program, he told him how some of the surgeons there bragged that they were worked so hard that the divorce rate among their trainees was greater than 100 percent - some of them burned through two marriages"). It's a very different approach from Henry Marsh (neurosurgeon) in his book Do No Harm, that's for sure.
posted by flibbertigibbet at 6:37 PM on December 30, 2016 [1 favorite]

The Marijuana link points to someone else's video. I managed to find it here.

Also, these are really interesting.
posted by suetanvil at 9:10 PM on December 30, 2016

Suetanvil: The OP link works for me.
posted by greermahoney at 9:18 PM on December 30, 2016

Huh. And now it works for me too. Weird. Maybe I misclicked; maybe Youtube screwed up.
posted by suetanvil at 9:22 PM on December 30, 2016

Huh. And now it works for me too. Weird.

Maybe you got micro-targeted to get a different opinIon. /Kidding I Hope
posted by saulgoodman at 10:33 PM on December 30, 2016