You Don't Feel 100%, You Have an Obligation to Give 100%

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I think a value is that even when you're not feeling 100%, you need to go there and give 100%. And I think that that is something for, especially in medicine, it is so important. You have to compartmentalize even from the 930 visit to the 10 o'clock visit. Find a way to put your emotions aside, because it's not about you. It's not aboutYou. You know, it's about somebody else. That's what you signed up for. Right. Yeah, I think about you sitting in your car crying and we all have days where things go wrong at home,. Things go wrong with our own bodies, things. We don't feel

Oncologist and epidemiologist Vinay Prasad argues that too many very expensive drugs get approved by the FDA that have very limited impact on the lives of patients. Prasad explains the incentives that distort the current system. The general problem, he explains to EconTalk host Russ Roberts, is the death of duty--too many players in the health care landscape and elsewhere stay quiet or do the wrong thing in order to serve themselves.