Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner uncovers the hidden side of everything. Why is it safer to fly in an airplane than drive a car? How do we decide whom to marry? Why is the media so full of bad news? Also: things you never knew you wanted to know about wolves, bananas, pollution, search engines, and the quirks of human behavior.
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By some estimates, medical error is the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. How can that be? And what's to be done? Our third and final episode in this series offers some encouraging answers.
Freakonomics Radio: Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis (Rebroadcast)
Wenn man besonders gut operiert werden will, nimmt man einen alten, weil erfahrenen Arzt, nicht wahr? Falsch!
Dritter Teil einer Serie über Medizin, auch die ersten beiden Teile sind empfehlenswert.