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268. Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6

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Diobetes - The Story of Medicine

Infectious disease as the source of high mortality in the early twentieth century, began to drop long before penicillon and anti bacterials came along. A lot of the advances in mortality and morbidity have come from really changes in the nature of a social life. That's keith waylew he's a princeton historian who es on health policy.

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