Are You Whipping Up the Public?

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I think that whipping up the public is a, you know, a pet pet hobby of certain cable news outlets. We forget their basic responsibility to truths and facts when it comes on the opinion side. And i strongly believe now in the 21 day quarantine for politicians and journalists who are aggloviating too much. I mean, criticising a obama's choice for the bola tzar, i think before even seeing what this guy is able to do.

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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