The Ebola Epidemic

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i think it's because the way we feel these and bola strikes this nerve on us, and maybe because it fits the outbreak narrative. We look at abola and see that as riskier than flew. But we are terrible estimators of risk. And so these viruses take hold of our imagination in a way that nascorous is a huge affection world wide. Tuberculous malaria, we don't think about them at all. But ebola, that's creeping out toward us, that occupies our minds.

In this episode, we talk to Danielle Ofri, a physician and author of "What Doctors Feel" - a book about the emotional lives of doctors and how compassion fatigue, biases, and other mental phenomena affect their decisions, their motivations, and their relationships with patients.

You'll also hear Ofri discuss emotional epidemiology, the viral-like spread of fear and other emotions that can lead to panics like those we've seen surrounding Ebola, the Swine Flu, SARS, and other illnesses.

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