TEDMED | Hidden patterns in health and medicine with Bapu Jena @TEDMED | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
Natural experiments allow us to analyze situations where people are exposed almost by chance in the real world to one path of care versus another. These natural experiments expose hidden patterns about what may or may not work in health and medicine. In this TEDMED Conversation, Bapu Jena, MD, PhD, Physician, Economist & Author of Random Acts of Medicine, and host, Kelly Thomas, PhD, dive into a few natural experiments and what they’ve taught us.

Related resources:
-Book: Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients and Shape Our Health. amazon.com/Random-Acts-Medicine-Doctors-Patients/dp/0385548818
-Podcast: Freakonomics, M.D. freakonomics.com/series/bapu

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