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31. Should You Trust Angelina Jolie or Your Doctor?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Do Colonoscopes on Air Screening Have an Impact on Health?

Do celebrities influence higher stakes decisions about our health? And if so, what happens when their message conflicts with medical opinion. When katy kirk had a conoscope on live t v, it was big news. It caught the attention of this researcher too. He and his team looked at a data base of 95 thousand colonoscopes focusing on the time period before and after cu screening.

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