
Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis (Rebroadcast)
Freakonomics Radio
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The Hidden Side of Everything
America is a world leader in the consumption of painkillers. How did medicine get taken over by consumerism? Doctors cope with their job by giving an angry patient what they want, not what they need. What's the number one problem in healthcare? We don't measure performance.
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