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41. Dr. Bapu Jena on Why Freakonomics Is the Best Medicine

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Do You Have a Reason for Why Cardiologists Are Out of Town?

When you see a paper in a clinical journal that presents the results of randomie trial, most often the characteristics of patients who received a treatment and a control are nearly identical. So if i'm looking at what happens to patients who are hospitalized during the dates of a national cordiology conference, when all the cardiologists are out of town, I want to know whether or not care is different. You haven't seen all the studies that i've tried to get published. Ly say, the successful ones, that's a different bias.

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