What Modern Medicine Gets Wrong (with Marty Makary)

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🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Johns Hopkins surgeon Dr. Marty Makary talks about his book Blind Spots with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. Makary argues that the medical establishment too often makes unsupported recommendations for treatment while condemning treatments and approaches that can make us healthier. This is a sobering and informative exploration of a number of key findings in medicine that turned out to be wrong and based on insufficient evidence.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to Econ Talk. in to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done
0:24.5	going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econ talk.org we'd love to hear from you. Today is August 15th, 2024.
0:37.0	My guest is Surgeon and author Marty McCary.
0:43.5	This is Marty's second appearance on Econ Talk.
0:45.9	He was last year in February of 2020
0:49.2	discussing his New York Times best-selling book,
0:52.1	The Price We Pay. His latest book and the
0:55.1	subject of today's conversation is blind spots when medicine gets it wrong at
1:00.0	what it means for our health.
1:02.6	Marty, welcome back to Econ Talk.
1:04.5	Great to see you, Russ.
1:06.1	This is a depressing book in certain dimensions,
1:09.3	but it also offers a lot of hope.
1:11.5	Explain the theme of the book, and why it may not be as bad as it seems.
1:16.0	Yeah, I left doing the research for this book very optimistic, but there's a phenomenon that's true
1:21.8	in every discipline and that is people with good
1:25.6	intentions can develop giant blind spots. There's a group think and a psychology
1:31.3	to the herd mentality and it affects how people think about politics and business and relationships and medical science is no different. There's a sort of way of
1:45.6	thinking in medicine that has an allegiance to the what the senior people what the you know what we've been taught and the psychology to it is that we
1:56.3	tend to believe what we hear first not what's most logical and so the way we
2:01.9	take in new information is now been well described by Leon
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