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4. What Do Grocery Store Prices and Heart Surgery Have in Common?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Leftte Jabias in Patients Turning 40

The older you are, the more that a few years make a difference. Doctors may view patients in their seventies very differently than patients in their eighties. A patient who's just turned 80 years old might be perceived by a doctor to be substantially sicker or higher risk then someone who's 79.

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