The Elm

In this interview, medical students Mitch Belkin (University of Maryland School of Medicine) and Daniel Belkin (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) talk with Deborah Korenstein, MD, chief of general internal medicine service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, about medical overuse and overdiagnosis. They discuss her April 2021 publication in JAMA Internal Medicine, "Accuracy of Practitioner Estimates of Probability of Diagnosis Before and After Testing," as well as the diagnostic process, the teachability of diagnostic reasoning, cognitive biases, and other topics.

"The External Medicine Podcast (EMP)" explores nontraditional ideas and innovation through longform interviews. Co-hosts Mitch Belkin and Daniel Belkin are medical students and brothers with diverse interests. Mitch, a former Fulbright scholar, and Daniel, a former filmmaker, examine new ideas and innovation on the outskirts of medicine.

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