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Top 10 papers

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Here is the list, eventually to be in chronological order. Complete citations, commentaries, and possibly hyperlinks will be added

1. A conversation with my mother, in JAMA

2. Variations in practices: the role of physician uncertainty, in Health Affairs

3. The American Cancer Society Guidelines for Cancer Screening, in CA: a cancer journal for clinicians

4. A conversation with my father, in JAMA

5. Clinical policies and the quality of clinical practice, in NEJM

6. How to solve the Clinical Pathological Conference, in NEJM

7. Probabilistic reasoning in medicine, in book edited by Kahneman and Tversky (my only brush with Nobel prize winners)

8. Comparison of a Mathematical model with Data, in Cancer

9. Principles for making difficult decisions in difficult times, in JAMA

10. Eddy DM. "The Individual vs. Society. Resolving the Conflict." JAMA 1991; 265:2399-2401, 2405-2405, and Eddy DM. "The Individual vs. Society: Is There a Conflict?" JAMA 1991; 265:1446, 1449-1450

11. Eddy DM. "Resolving Conflicts in Practice Policies." JAMA  1990; 264:389-391

12. The paper I pulled from JAMA on glaucoma

13. Guidelines: how should they be designed? in JAMA

14. Will Controlling costs require rationing services? and Rationing by Patient Choice, both in JAMA

15. Ionics vs. nonionics, the inside story, in JAMA

16. High-Dose Chemotherapy with Autologous Bone Marrow Transplantation for the Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer, in the Journal of Clinical Oncology

17. (I know this is more than 10. I'll pare it down. But I really like each of these papers)

     

     

     

     

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