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36. Bad News — It’s Your Surgeon’s Birthday

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Introduction

Catherine moore is a tap dancer who performs with the lady hoofer's tap an somble in philadelphia. She's also a cognitive psychologist at arcadia university right outside that city. The whole process prepare into no the operating room, is a routine, and it becomes ingrained in you as almost like a pre oar meditation routine. For c Catherine, if she's practised enough, the dance movements she performs on stage become almost automatic. In some ways, surgery and dance are similar, mostly because their performers may enter what's known as a flow state.

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