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20. Do Our Politics Need a Doctor?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Is There Something You Learned as a Doctor in Politics?

i'm curious, o know, was there something that you learned as a doctor in ning, being a surgeon, that prepares you for political life. It's kind of hard to understand how you do take that jump from literally the operating room every day and taking care of lots of patients,. I think what people saw in me was, number one, trust. And then the second thing is the ability to assimilate, based on a limited amount of information, be able to make a diagnosis.

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