Anupam Bapu Jena on Random Acts of Medicine

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🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Do marathons kill people who aren't in the race? Does when you're born make you more likely to get the flu? And what's the difference between a good doctor and a bad one? These are some of the questions Anupam Bapu Jena of Harvard University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts take up as they discuss Jena's book, Random Acts of Medicine.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.6	You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:29.8	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is August 22nd, 2023, and my guest is physician and economist, Anupam Bapu Jena.
0:45.1	He is the Joseph P. Newhouse professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School
0:49.8	and a physician in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.
0:54.5	He has an MD and PhD in economics from the University of Chicago and he hosts the
0:58.5	Freakonomics MD podcast.
1:00.5	He is also the author along with Christopher Werschem of the book, Random Acts of Medicine,
1:06.8	The Hidden Forces at Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shaper Health, which is our topic
1:12.7	for today.
1:13.7	Bapu, welcome to econtalk.
1:14.7	Thank you for having me.
1:16.7	This is a fantastic book of very interesting empirical work on very interesting questions.
1:25.0	I found the questions as interesting as the answers, and I'm sure that's off in the
1:30.6	case, but they're both fantastic.
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