
Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis (Rebroadcast)
Freakonomics Radio
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The Problem With Diagnostic Errors
Anupam Jena: Medical errors have a complex taxon. There are errors of diagnosis, and then there's errors of commission when a patient has surgery on the wrong leg. He says 99% of people that have surgery in the U.S. go home and no one keeps track at a systematic level how they do. AnupamJena: Who's actually measuring the real patient-centered outcomes six months or a year later?
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