Random Acts of Medicine by Anupam B. Jena (.ePUB)
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Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health by Anupam B. Jena, Christopher Worsham
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Overview: Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hidden side of medicine and how unexpected—but predictable—events can profoundly affect our health.
• Is there ever a good time to have a heart attack?
• 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?
“Fantastically entertaining and deeply thought-provoking.” —Emily Oster, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Firm, Cribsheet, and Expecting Better
“Smart, entertaining, and full of surprises.” —Steven D. Levitt, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Freakonomics
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 their impact on the hospital’s sickest patients. In this singular work of science and medicine, Jena and Worsham show us how medicine really works, and its effect on all of us.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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