15. The Most “Unique, Excellent, and Promising” Episode

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Society & Culture, Science

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Studies by men published in scientific journals are more likely to include glowing, hyperbolic terms. Bapu talks about this “groundbreaking” research (see what we did there?) in a wide-ranging discussion with physicians and an economist about the gender gap in medicine.

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0:00.0	Excellent, remarkable, innovative.
0:06.4	If you've ever read a study in a scientific journal, you might have come across some terms
0:10.4	like these, robust, unique, novel, and interestingly enough, the authors that use these words
0:18.1	tend to all have something in common, astonishing, unprecedented.
0:23.7	Can you guess what it is?
0:28.7	From the Freakonomics Radio Network, this is Freakonomics MD.
0:35.3	I'm Bob Ujena.
0:36.3	I'm a medical doctor and an economist, and this is a show where I dissect fascinating
0:41.0	questions at the sweet spot between health and economics.
0:44.4	Today on the show, is the medical research done by men really more excellent, novel, and
0:50.5	astonishing than the research done by women?
0:53.5	Well, I did a study to find out.
0:55.6	You can probably guess what I've found, but I'm going to tell you about it today and
0:59.9	much more.
1:00.9	We'll talk about gender disparities in medicine, a field that prizes objectivity, data, and
1:06.0	outcomes.
1:07.0	We'll talk about what implications this has, not just for doctors.
1:10.5	Did he just fail to call me Dr. Files?
1:14.2	And does it matter?
1:15.2	Am I just being super sensitive?
1:17.4	Wow.
1:18.4	But for patients too.
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