The Curious Clinicians

73 - Random Acts of Medicine with Dr. Christopher Worsham

Jul 13, 2023

38:03

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Hidden Forces of Medicine

5min

The Importance of Natural Experiments in Clinical Practice

5min

The Left Digit Bias

3min

The Effect of Age on Opioid Prescribing

4min

The Representativeness Heuristic

2min

The Randomness of Birthdays

5min

The Difficulty of Natural Experiments

4min

The Importance of Taking Care of Yourself

2min

10.

How to Use Data to Write Cool Things With It

5min

On this episode, The Curious Clinicians are joined by Dr Christopher Worsham, co-author of a fascinating and insightful new book, Random Acts of Medicine, which explores the use of natural experiments to better understand healthcare and is now out in hardcover!

Audio edited by Clair Morgan of Nodderly.com.