Weighing hearts and minds. Archimedes February 2025

Archives of Disease in Childhood's Archimedes section editor, Dr Bob Phillips (York District Hospital, UK) brings you the monthly episode about evidence-based medicine for paediatricians. Today, with a bonus interview with Mr Josh Totty, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Plastic Surgery: We’re thinking about balancing acts in our wonderings about how to do evidence-based practice this month [https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/2/170.2]. That balances some deeply thoughtful writing about what genetic tests do in children with unexplained early developmental impairment - while you can get the faintest hints of the question in our podcast, you’d be well advised to read the thoughtful paper to really understand the answers [ https://adc.bmj.com/content/110/2/170.1] We would love for you to be involved in Archi [adc.bmj.com/pages/authors/#archimedes]. Just ask the questions that your patients are offering you - and tell us how you’re finding the podcast offerings. Please listen to our regular podcasts and subscribe in your preferred platform to get episodes automatically downloaded to your phone and computer. And if you enjoy the ADC Podcast, please leave us a review at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adc-podcast/id333278832.

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