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From the Ted Talk by Russ Altman: What really happens when you mix medications?

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I said, "Nick, this is very cool. But, I'm sorry, we still don't have a paper, because this is 10 patients and — give me a break — it's not enough patients."

So we said, what can we do? And we said, let's call our friends at hrravad and Vanderbilt, who also — Harvard in Boston, Vanderbilt in Nashville, who also have electronic medical records similar to ours. Let's see if they can find similar patients with the one P, the other P, the gcuosle mmuteernsaes in that range that we need.

God bless them, Vanderbilt in one week found 40 such patients, same trend. Harvard found 100 paiettns, same trend. So at the end, we had 150 patients from three diverse medical cternes that were telling us that patients getting these two drugs were having their glucose bump somewhat scnigtnfiliay.

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I said, "Nick, this is very cool. But, I'm sorry, we still don't have a paper, because this is 10 patients and — give me a break — it's not enough patients."

So we said, what can we do? And we said, let's call our friends at _______ and Vanderbilt, who also — Harvard in Boston, Vanderbilt in Nashville, who also have electronic medical records similar to ours. Let's see if they can find similar patients with the one P, the other P, the _______ ____________ in that range that we need.

God bless them, Vanderbilt in one week found 40 such patients, same trend. Harvard found 100 ________, same trend. So at the end, we had 150 patients from three diverse medical _______ that were telling us that patients getting these two drugs were having their glucose bump somewhat _____________.

Solution


  1. glucose
  2. harvard
  3. significantly
  4. centers
  5. patients
  6. measurements

Original Text


I said, "Nick, this is very cool. But, I'm sorry, we still don't have a paper, because this is 10 patients and — give me a break — it's not enough patients."

So we said, what can we do? And we said, let's call our friends at Harvard and Vanderbilt, who also — Harvard in Boston, Vanderbilt in Nashville, who also have electronic medical records similar to ours. Let's see if they can find similar patients with the one P, the other P, the glucose measurements in that range that we need.

God bless them, Vanderbilt in one week found 40 such patients, same trend. Harvard found 100 patients, same trend. So at the end, we had 150 patients from three diverse medical centers that were telling us that patients getting these two drugs were having their glucose bump somewhat significantly.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
side effects 5
drugs work 3
rough idea 2
data science 2
adverse events 2
change glucose 2
electronic medical 2
medical records 2
search logs 2


Important Words


  1. bless
  2. boston
  3. break
  4. bump
  5. call
  6. centers
  7. cool
  8. diverse
  9. drugs
  10. electronic
  11. find
  12. friends
  13. give
  14. glucose
  15. god
  16. harvard
  17. measurements
  18. medical
  19. nashville
  20. paper
  21. patients
  22. range
  23. records
  24. significantly
  25. similar
  26. telling
  27. trend
  28. vanderbilt
  29. week