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Lisa M. Schwartz, MD, M.S., and Steven Woloshin, MD, MS, are general internists at the White River Junction Veterans Administration Medical Center in Vermont. They also are professors of medicine, and community and family medicine, at Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire.
Together, they are working to address two important barriers to health communication: 1) many patients and providers are limited in their ability to interpret medical data, and 2) health messages are often exaggerated or incomplete. Dr. Schwartz and Dr. Woloshin have written extensively on this topic and are co-authors of several books including Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics and Overdiagnosed.
In this podcast, they talk with Helen Osborne about:
- Health statistics, health messages, and health claims. Helping people make sense of what they hear on the news, see on TV, and read in the ads.
- Three questions to help others better understand health messages.
- Ways to communicate complicated health messages more simply and clearly.
More Ways to Learn:
- Woloshin S, Schwartz LM, Welch HG, Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics. University of California Press, 2008. (The book can be downloaded for free from http://www.jameslindlibrary.org/testing-treatments.html
- Welch HG, Schwartz LM, Woloshin, Overdiagnosed. Beacon Press, 2011.
- S Woloshin, LM Schwartz, BS Kramer. “Promoting health skepticism in the news: Helping journalists get it right,” J Natl Cancer Institute 101(23): 1596–1599.
- “Healthy Skepticism,” White River Junction Outcomes Group. Available at http://www.vaoutcomes.org/washpost.php
- Osborne H, “In Other Words…Working With Numbers,” On Call magazine, June/July 2004. Available at http://healthliteracy.com/article.asp?PageID=3745
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Very helpful! We are bombarded on so many sides with so much information that it is difficult to make sense of it all at times. Thanks for taking the time to help us layfolk!
Comment by Robin — April 17, 2011 @ 9:28 pm