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What We Secretly Want (w/ Robin Hanson)

Uncertain Things

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Is Medicine a Small Part of Increasing Life Expectancy?

People's conviction that bloodletting is the shit. We now spend 20% of GDP in the US, one out of every five dollars goes for medicine - which is enormous. And taking it from your book, we're talking about people not just going through bad medicine, but also consistently having the impression that their medicine is useful. So clearly things have improved. The question is what?

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