Left Digit Bias w/ Dr. Bapu Jena and Bird-Catching Neanderthals
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Is There a Medical Tip to a Cardag Bypasser?
If you're 79 years old and a doctor is not offering you a procedure, it's worth kind of pushing on that little bit. Does this also apply to measurements from lab tests and things like that? You know, they're always cut off there. It does. So if having a creatnine or kidney measurement of two point o leads a patient to undergo some advanced forms of care and the patients do better, that's good evidence that that care is actually useful. If they do worse, that’s good evidence thatthat care is actually not useful. But you could use that laboratory based behavior discontinuity to understand if those things are better or not.
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