Marathons Can Be Deadly — But Not For the Reasons You May Think

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🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In this pilot episode of a new “Freakonomics of Medicine” podcast, when host Dr. Bapu Jena misses his wife’s 5K run, he sets out to study how road closures and detours on big race days affect people with medical emergencies.

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0:00.0	Hey, Bapu.
0:03.0	How's it going?
0:04.0	I like your podcast.
0:05.0	Thank you.
0:06.0	So why don't you just say your name and what you do?
0:09.0	My name is Bapu Jenna.
0:11.0	I'm an economist and a physician at Harvard.
0:14.0	I teach health care policy and health economics.
0:17.0	I see patients at Massachusetts General Hospital
0:20.0	and I'm a professor at Harvard Medical School.
0:22.0	As if you need another job,
0:24.0	you are getting ready to host a new podcast
0:26.0	for the Freakonomics Radio Network.
0:28.0	We are about to play now for our listeners
0:30.0	a pilot episode of your new show,
0:32.0	which I am incredibly excited about.
0:34.0	But first, let me just ask,
0:36.0	Bapu is not the name on your birth certificate, is it?
0:39.0	Is this being recorded for legal purposes?
0:41.0	No.
0:42.0	My first name is Anupam.
0:44.0	Bapu is my middle name.
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