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36. Bad News — It’s Your Surgeon’s Birthday

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Intense Focus in the Medical World

Intense focus is crit for a number of professions, pilots, accountants, scientists and surgeons. But very few people can achieve and maintain that kind of flow state on demand. People get distracted. They make mistakes. And in medicine, those mistakes can have consequences.

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