The Duty of Being a Cop

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"There's a duty of being a cop. And that duty is even if you're scared, even if your colleague was shot," Persov says. "And honestly, it doesn't matter to me what your bosses are telling you on the radio ... You have a duty and they didn't go in" He adds: "I always find a way to break the rule because if it's right for my patient, that's my duty"

Oncologist and epidemiologist Vinay Prasad argues that too many very expensive drugs get approved by the FDA that have very limited impact on the lives of patients. Prasad explains the incentives that distort the current system. The general problem, he explains to EconTalk host Russ Roberts, is the death of duty--too many players in the health care landscape and elsewhere stay quiet or do the wrong thing in order to serve themselves.