
Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6 (Rebroadcast)
Freakonomics Radio
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The Differences Between Doctors and Pharmacists
Sir Ian Chalmers co-founded the Cochrane Collaboration. He was struck by how much variance there was from doctor to doctor. When he became a doctor himself, Chalmers worked at a refugee camp in Gaza. This led him to embark on a year's long effort to create a centralized body of research.
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