Media Reporting of Medical Advances: Helpful or Misleading?

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The media and medicine have different perspectives. At least in part, this is due to a preference for individual human stories over detailed analysis of results. 

This lecture will use examples of how the public may be misled and consider the implications of such misunderstanding.

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This event was on Wed, 23 May 2018

Professor Martin Elliott

Professor Martin Elliott

Professor of Physic

Martin Elliott MD FRCS is Provost of Gresham College. He is  Professor Emeritus of Cardiothoracic Surgery at UCL & Professor Emeritus of Physic at Gresham College.

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