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035 _a(OCoLC)1385351254
092 _a616.0072
_bJ51
049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aJena, Anupam B.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aRandom acts of medicine :
_bthe hidden forces that sway doctors, impact patients, and shape our health /
_cAnupam B. Jena, M.D., Ph.D. & Christopher Worsham, M.D..
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bDoubleday,
_c[2023]
300 _a307 pages :
_billustrations, charts ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 251-290) and index.
505 0 _aOur lives are woven in a fabric of chance -- Natural experiments -- Why are kids with summer birthdays more likely to get the flu? -- Tom Brady, ADHD, and a really bad headache -- Are marathons hazardous to your health? -- What happens when all the cardiologists leave town? -- Big doctor is watching -- What do cardiac surgeons and used car salesman have in common? -- What makes a good doctor? -- Politics at the bedside.
520 _a"Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with A.D.H.D.? How are marathons harmful for your health, even when you're not running? What do surgeons and salesmen have in common? Which annual event made people 30 percent more likely to contract COVID-19? As a University of Chicago-trained economist and Harvard medical school professor and doctor, Anupam Jena is uniquely equipped to answer these questions. And as a critical care doctor at Massachusetts General who researches health care policy, Christopher Worsham confronts its impact on the hospital's sickest patients. In this singular work of science and medicine, Jena and Worsham work together to reveal the hidden side of medicine, and its effect on everyone that touches the health care system. Relying on ingeniously devised natural experiments-random events that unknowingly turn us into experimental subjects-Jena and Worsham do more than offer readers colorful stories. They help us see the way our health is shaped by forces invisible to the untrained eye. Do you choose the veteran doctor or the rookie? Do you take the appointment on Monday or on Friday? Do you get the procedure now or wait a week? These questions are rife with significance; their impact can be life changing. In a style that's animated and enlightening, this book empowers you to see past the white coat and find out what really makes medicine work-and how it could work better"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aMedicine
_xResearch.
_9244924
650 0 _aObservation (Scientific method)
650 0 _aInference.
_9369329
650 0 _aProbabilities.
_9120353
700 1 _aWorsham, Christopher,
_eauthor.
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