Exploring the challenges doctors face in processing mistakes, drawing comparisons to other fields, and discussing the importance of considering practice changes and associated risks.
Do marathons kill people who aren't in the race? Does when you're born make you more likely to get the flu? And what's the difference between a good doctor and a bad one? These are some of the questions Anupam Bapu Jena of Harvard University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts take up as they discuss Jena's book, Random Acts of Medicine.