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Stephen ovella is a professor of neurology at yale, host of the sceptics guide to universe. Danel ofre is an internist at bellview hospital in new york city. She's also a writer who has appeared on t c and npr. They will talk about how emotions affect the practice of medicine. And you will hear how doctors deal with logical fallacies and cognitive biases.

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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