Exploring Natural Experiments and their Role in Medical Care and Policy

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An exploration into the concept of natural experiments and their significance in medical care, medical law, and health care policy, specifically comparing them to randomized trials and discussing how researchers can use them to study the causal effects of interventions in real-life situations.

Do marathons kill people who aren't in the race? Does when you're born make you more likely to get the flu? And what's the difference between a good doctor and a bad one? These are some of the questions Anupam Bapu Jena of Harvard University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts take up as they discuss Jena's book, Random Acts of Medicine.