Adam Cifu on the Case for Being a Medical Conservative

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🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Physician and author Adam Cifu of the University of Chicago talks about being a medical conservative with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Cifu encourages doctors to appreciate the complexity of medical care and the reality that many medical techniques advocated by experts are not always beneficial or cost-effective. The conversation explores the challenges of finding reliable evidence to support medical interventions and the inherent uncertainty surrounding outcomes.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.6	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:17.6	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:20.5	We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:24.8	back to 2006.
0:27.0	Where you may address his mail.org, we'd love to hear from you.
0:33.8	Today is May 20th, 2019.
0:35.4	I guess his author and physician, Adam Seafood of the University of Chicago.
0:40.2	He last appeared on econtalk in February of 2016, discussing his book written with
0:44.5	the neighbor sod, ending medical reversal.
0:47.6	A discussion of how depressingly often, healthcare therapies and treatments, they'd appear
0:52.1	to work in observational studies failed to show success and often produce harm when
0:56.6	tested in randomized control trials.
0:58.9	Today, we're going to be talking about his very short and very provocative essay in the
1:03.0	American Journal of Medicine that he wrote with Veney Prasad, John Mandola, and Andrew
1:07.5	Foy.
1:08.5	And the title of that essay is The Case for Being a Medical Conservative, Adam Woke
1:13.1	up back.
1:14.1	Thank you very much, Russ.
1:15.1	It's great to be on.
1:17.3	I see this conversation as a way to bring together a number of e-contalk episodes over
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