Norman Swan
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15,786 appearances
142 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard 18 Sep
Norman Swan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But actually, Norman, the number needed to treat in this was 37.
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Yes, and we have a calculator for that.
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There are these scores, there's all this stuff, Norman, but at the end of the day it comes down to the patient in front of you and everyone has different CSAW risk benefit pros and cons.
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And I might have two seventy three year old patients and one will choose the statin and one won't, and they're both okay.
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They're both fine decisions.
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It's up to the patient, it's shared decision making.
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Or a or a discussion.
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There's a bit more in it though, I think, because the British Medical Journal have published a news piece on this, which we will link in the show notes.
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There's some debate and discussion as to this term measles associated death.
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The infant in question.
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Yes.
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And from what I understand from this BMJ article, this is what the reference that I'm using, the infant that died, the mother had tested positive for measles, the infant did as well, and the infant sustained a splenic rupture.
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So the British Medical Journal article says
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That the family physician and Republican elected coroner, it's very specifically that political element is in there, added that the infant's immediate cause of death was a ruptured spleen, but that they couldn't say that it was definitely due to the underlying measles.
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Now there's a lot of debate and discourse here between many authorities saying, well, it's most likely the measles that has caused the splenic rupture in an infant, which is quite rare.
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I would say it's very nuanced now.
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And and and political.
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Agree.
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On ABC Radio National, you're with the health report.
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