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58. What Do Hand-Washing and Financial Illiteracy Have in Common?

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The best educated people in the hospital need to be tricked and shamed, even frightened, into washing their hands. What if we used the kind of tricks that cedar sinai used for hand washing to try to increase our financial literacy? What if your four o one k paper work came with a tin of cat food to remind you what you might be eating in old age if you don't panbi? What if every time you buy a motom f tad onfor economics it was accompanied by a picture of the tu-tat!

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