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Jerry Hoffman

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Aug 24, 2026

4:48
but it had two in it.
4:49
Yeah.
4:50
Again, I go back to the, my original notion, which is that we're trying to find small differences, but these differences cannot matter.
4:57
It cannot.
4:58
If you need 35,000 patients and you still can't find a difference that's not different, it's not a strong chance that there's a real difference.
5:05
It's a very minimal chance that there's a, there's a, it's essentially no chance that there's a difference that matters.
5:12
And in addition, what about the flip side? Stop talking about the benefit without talking about the harm.
6:15
There we go.
9:22
Amazing.
9:23
And I don't really want to get into the article itself quite yet, but I want to back up a little bit and be a little bit contrarian about a few things.
9:32
So first of all, a few years ago, I helped the brilliant young ER critical care doctor, Sarah Krager, wrote an article about ultrasound, ultrasound making decisions about shock.
9:49
And I think the title of the article was something like, but it makes physiologic sense.
9:54
So when I heard you talk about the physiology, not only did my brain cloud over, as I usually try to make it do when I hear such things,
10:05
But it reminded me that it's
10:08
really important to think about clinical outcomes, not surrogate outcomes.

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27:02
So what do we do with all this then? What does this mean? How do we take specifically this study and take anything from it?

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