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Hi everyone, this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org Medscape Cardiology and this is this week in

cardiology for October 18th 2019. This week the Nobel Prize, more on the Excel trial controversy, the the

cost of cardiac test, familial hyper cholesterolemia, and burnout.

First off, I want to say thanks for the many comments I got on the

last podcast I loved hearing from you on the content. Today I will begin with

the Nobel Prize. Medscape covered the Nobel Prize in Medicine, which was awarded

to a British American trio for cell and oxygen research. Obviously, this is an important area

of basic research, but once again for practicing

clinicians like me the more pertinent Nobel Prize is the one for economics

now I say once again because Daniel Connaments is the one for economics.

Now I say once again because Daniel Connaments Nobel

in economics, which he won for his work on the biases, inherent

and human decision-making is vital to our work in helping people make decisions on medical care.

But this year, the Nobel and economics went to Esther Dufflow, her husband, Abahiji, Vanerjee, and Michael Kremmer, all from Cambridge

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