Dr. Talia Mirin-Chatz is a leader in research at the intersection of medicine and behavioral economics.

She is professor accounting director of the Center for Medical Decision Making,

two auto-academic college in Israel, senior fellow at the Center for Medicine and the public interest in New York,

and a visiting researcher at the Winton Center for Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge.

She was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton and a lecturer at Wharton.

She's the author of over 60 academic papers on medical decision making and the author of the new book titled Your Life Depends on It.

What you can do to make better choices about your health.

Talia, welcome.

Hey.

So your book is around making better choices around our own health and health care.

And why do you think it's such a critical time to have this conversation?

I think it's always a critical time to have this conversation because you should always take really good care of your health.

But especially now with COVID, I think that's like through medical decision making and health choices,

right to the center of our life, it isn't going away anytime soon.

So particularly now for the past, I don't know how many months and looking into the future, it's virtual.

I agree.

And look, we believe in information and being educated in its empowerment.

But there's Dr. Google.

And I struggled with this.

I don't think I'm alone when you're faced with a choice around your own health.

Maybe you're not feeling so well or you're trying to be proactive or something.

And you go to Dr. Google and information can be empowering, but information can also cause you to spiral.

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