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7. What Happens to Patients When Thousands of Cardiologists Leave Town?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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The Economoust Part of Your Brain Is Intruding on the Medical Part of the Brain

A new study found that patients with heart attacks had lower mortity rates if hospitalized during the dates of an interventional cordialogy meeting. The people who were going to conferences were more likely to have attended a top medical school and received research funding from the national institutes of health or led a clinical trial.

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