Freakonomics, M.D.
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Each week, physician, economist, and author of "Random Acts of Medicine" Dr. Bapu Jena will dig into a fascinating study at the intersection of economics and healthcare. He takes on questions like: Why do kids with summer birthdays get the flu more often? Can surviving a hurricane help you live longer? What do heart surgery and grocery-store pricing have in common?
Episodes (87)
The Economics of Everyday Things: Animal Urine
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Tom Brady, A.D.H.D., and a Really Bad Headache (Bonus)
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78. Do Kids Cause Divorce?
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77. They Make Minimum Wage. They Could Save Your Life.
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76. Is a Spoonful of Sunlight the Best Medicine?
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75. What Is Sugar Really Doing to You?
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74. How Does Playing Football Affect Your Health?
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73. Who Pays for Multimillion-Dollar Miracle Cures?
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72. What’s Stopping Us From Curing Rare Diseases?
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71. What Do COVID-19 and Cancer Have in Common?
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70. Why Are There Still So Few Female Surgeons?
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69. Home Sweet … Hospital?
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68. The E.R. Doctor’s Dilemma
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What Can We Do About the Hardest Patients? (Ep. 51 Replay)
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67. Why Did This 60-Year-Old Man Collapse at the Supermarket?
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66. Does Health Insurance Make You Healthier?
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65. How Do Pandemics Change Health Care?
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64. Is Facebook Bad for Your Mental Health?
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63. What Medicine Gets Wrong About Race
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Why Don’t We Have a Cure for Alzheimer’s? (Ep. 49 Update)
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62. Dr. Ashish Jha Anticipated a Pandemic. He Didn’t Think It Would Look Like Th...
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61. Should You Bother Getting a Colonoscopy?
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60. The Doctor Is Out. The Physician Assistant Is In.
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59. The Most Valuable Resource in Medicine
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58. How Important Is Breastfeeding, Really?
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57. Doctors Know They Prescribe Too Many Antibiotics. Why Don’t They Stop?
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56. Could Prison Be Good for Your Health?
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55. This Vaccine Lottery Seemed Like a Great Idea. Why Didn’t it Work?
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54. Will You Ever Go Back to Your Doctor’s Office?
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53. Why Do Doctors Have to Play Defense?
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52. Who Gets a Heart Disease Test?
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Why Fridays May Be Dangerous for Your Health (Ep. 9 Replay)
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51. What Can We Do About the Hardest Patients?
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50. What Happens When a Hospital Closes?
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49. Why Don’t We Have a Cure for Alzheimer’s?
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48. The Hidden Consequences of School Shootings
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47. Should We Trust Hospital Rankings?
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How Does Retirement Affect Your Brain? (Ep. 17 Replay)
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46. Could Long Covid Help Treat Other Chronic Illnesses?
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45. Why Is July a Bad Month to Visit the Hospital?
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44. Office Hours with Bapu
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43. The Comedian-Ophthalmologist Will See You Now
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42. Your Doctor Has to Go Home. Now What?
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41. Is Rainy Day Joint Pain All in Your Head?
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40. How Will We Handle the Heat?
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A Shave, a Haircut, and a Blood Pressure Test (Ep. 6 Update)
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38. Pfizer’s CEO on the Big Gamble That Brought Us the COVID Vaccine
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37. Can Fear Be Good Medicine?
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36. Bad News — It’s Your Surgeon’s Birthday
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35. Are More Expensive Hospitals Better?
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