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68. The E.R. Doctor’s Dilemma

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Emergency Medicine - Is There a Way to Help Doctors Make Better Decisions?

In 2020, there were more than 33 million hospital admissions in the US. We're going to talk about why it can be so hard to figure out which patients need to be in the hospital and which patients can safely be sent home. Who or what could help them get it right? There's a bunch of high-risk people that the algorithm says, boy, this person looks very risky that the doctors were not testing.

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