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A Shave, a Haircut, and a Blood Pressure Test (Ep. 6 Update)

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Affirmative Action

There are political issues around affirmative action that people may disagree about, but there's also scientific issues around the effect of affirmative action bands on things that we might care about. We have the data suggesting that this is a key lever to pull to actually achieve health equity. All of these anti racist themes that have come out of our medical schools are academic medical centers over the last couple of years. And one of the reasons that they've said they've done that is to try and incur rage students from population tht have historically been under represented in medical schools. So younw, we'll see if those policies have worked in the way that you've just outlined. They think that is one lever that

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