Saturday Stories: Altmetrics, Abuse, And Alan (Dershowitz) #TIMESUPHC

John Ioannidis, in JAMA, on how we, as evidenced by Altmetrics, are failing at conveying information about health related risks, in a manner that’s conducive with its importance.

Lisa Miller, in The Cut, with the horrifying must read story of how medical celebrity and stature let a serial sexual abuser into New York’s Mount Sinai emergency room where he abused Aja Newman (and others) #TIMESUPHealthcare

Lyz Lenz, in the Columbia Journalism Review, on the wheel of pain and Alan Dershowitz’ self-perceived victimhood.

[And if you don’t follow me on Twitter or Facebook, A few weeks ago I did a Q&A for Elemental on my philosophy and approach to weight management. tl;dr I’m not fond of suffering, scales don’t measure health, one person’s best diet is another’s worst, medicine should be free of blame]