
Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6 (Rebroadcast)
Freakonomics Radio
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The Importance of Simplifying the Medical Establishment
An elevated temperature isn't necessarily a sign of illness. Temperature varies from person to person, sometimes so much that one person's normal would register as nearly feverish for another person. Inappropriately simplistic thinking makes you wonder if the medical establishment believed for so long in an inappropriately simplistic story about something as basic as normal body temperature. We'll be talking about the new era of personalized medicine and especially, pay attention now, we will be talking about bad medicine.
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