All the Nags from 2013

JANUARY 2013

• How other doctors (but not you of course!) are influenced by Big Pharma
• Does knowing change behaving?
• Avandia: a very short history of a very bad drug
• Public humiliation as self-tracking motivation

FEBRUARY 2013

• When does mindfulness become mind-numbing?
• “Heads they win, tails we lose”: the corruption of science
• Self-tracking tech revolution? Not so fast. . .

MARCH 2013

• The three triggers that can change behavior
• My farewell letter to the Pope
• PhD in analyzing text messages. Seriously.
• Patients as Partners, or Patients as Tokens?
• Digital temptations: “Quantifying, tracking or gamifying everything”

APRIL 2013

• “If you’re clueless and you know it . . . ”
• Branded content: advertising dressed up in a thin disguise?
• An open letter to mobile health app developers and their funders – Jessie Gruman

MAY 2013

• Ethicists demand external, independent investigation of Dan Markingson’s death
• Should doctors use their real names on social media?
• “Punytive” damages: the biggest corporate fines ever
• The breast/uterine cancer study with no women invited

JUNE 2013

• Want a safer O.R?  Shut the !@#& up!
• Dr. Harriet Hall on the rise of the anti-scientific left
• Can self-tracking drive you crazy?
• “Fewer numbers, more life experiences”
• Molière’s 17th century take on physicians

JULY 2013

• Why 74% of smartphone apps are dropped by the 10th use
• What if everything worked like health care?
• How one thin dime can trash a reputation
• When patients barter for health care

AUGUST 2013

• Big Pharma targets Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants
• The Google Glass hypefest:  “Look at me! Look at me!”
• Ad-proofing tips from The Ad Guy
• The rule of seven touches

SEPTEMBER 2013

• “OMG! I forgot my phone!”
• Airline advertising vs real life travel
• Key Opinion Leaders in medicine are paid to have an opinion

OCTOBER 2013

• How to make mediocre coffee that’s expensive and wasteful
• The selling of yoga
• PR 101, in which we ask: “What were they thinking?”
• The public relations minefield that is Big Pharma

NOVEMBER 2013

• Vintage ads for doctor-recommended smokes
• Infographics: have we gone too far?
• Can statins prevent my head from exploding?
• Statin guidelines we love to hate – and the docs who write them
• Survivorship bias: when we focus only on success

DECEMBER 2013

• Revisiting data porn: your digital footprint in real life
• First, the Quantified Self.  Now, the Over-Quantified Self.
• The Quantified Selfer’s Christmas form letter
• “Vintage Christmas ads we’ll likely never see again”
• If December 25th is your birthday . . .
• How to be just as annoying without Google Glass
• Top 10 Nags of 2013 from The Ethical Nag

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