Welcome to 2019! This was meant to be a Christmas Special, but we all have lives and it’s been kind of busy on the PICU. So it’s welcome to 2019.
The Christmas BMJ is a British medical tradition. In the spirit of the IgNobel prize, this edition is full of articles which are scientifically robust, statistically valid, and utterly ridiculous.
In this episode we review a variety of papers from this edition and consider their messages, validity, and humour. When do myocardial infarctions happen on Christmas Eve? Do Doctors really play golf? The first ever randomised controlled trial of jumping out of an aeroplane with or without a parachute. Ingesting lego heads. And if you don’t use your brain, will you lose it?
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