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13. When Bapu Met Levitt

Freakonomics, M.D.

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How to Find Out if You're a Better Doctor Than You

When a patient shows up at the emergency room, he or she has no idea what doctors are going to be working at that time. And if some doctors are better than others, then as a patient, i can get lucky or unlucky depending on which doctors are working. Piers Morgan: Is it fair to say that when you started doing these natural experiments in medicine, literally, were you not the only person publishing studies like that? T absolutely. I would say this is what i'm known for. There's not a ton of people who a really specialized in natural experiments.

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