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270. Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis

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Are You Getting Further in the Rear View Mirror?

Jenna's research looks specifically at physician experience as it relates to patient outcomes. She found that over time, older doctors do worse when caring for patients. Jenna: We have suppose ly entered the era of evidence based medicine. This is still relatively new ground. The reality was that what we were practising was something called eminent sbase medicine. It was where the preponderance of medical practice was driven by really carismatic and thoughtful,. probably to some degree, leaders in im you know, medical practice.

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