Freakonomics, M.D.

65. How Do Pandemics Change Health Care?

Dec 16, 2022

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COVID-19 - The Importance of Innovation in the ICU

01:45

How Hospitals Changed During the 1918 Flu Pandemic

02:28

The Future of Critical Care Medicine and Hospital Care?

03:09

Introduction

2min

How Can Medicines Pass to Help Us Understand Its Present?

2min

Hospitals and Medicine in the 20th Century

2min

The Great Influenza Pandemic

2min

How Hospitals Changed During the 1918 Flu Pandemic

2min

The Influenza Pandemic - Did It Cause More Hospital Capacity?

2min

Did More Hospitals Lead to More Hospital Use?

2min

The Impact of Hospital Capacity Growth on Health Disparities

2min

COVID-19 - The Importance of Innovation in the ICU

2min

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Critical Care Medicine and COVID

2min

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What We Learned From the Pandemic in the ICU

2min

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The Future of Critical Care Medicine and Hospital Care?

3min

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The Future of Healthcare

3min

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Predictive Health and the COVID-19 Pandemic

2min

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Is Health Insurance Making Us Healthier?

2min

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Freakonomics MD Podcast Review

2min

At the start of the 20th century, there weren’t many hospitals in the U.S. That changed in 1918, thanks to the Great Influenza pandemic. Its effects on health care are still being felt today. Which makes us wonder: will the impact of Covid-19 also be felt 100 years from now?