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19. Do Your Doctor’s Political Views Affect Your Care?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Politics Can Affect Doctors

Aton hirsh is a political scientist at tuff's university, who researches political behavior. Doctors generally want the freedom to talk to their patients about whatever they want, particularly if they think it's medically relevant. But that doesn't always happen when state legislatures say we don't want you talking about certain things. And those things tend to be politicizedThings can also restrict what treatment doctors can offer patients.

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