Core Concepts
Natural experiments in medicine reveal insights into biases and behaviors affecting patient care.
Stats
"If you look at people, in any given city, in which a household has a member with a birthday, that household is about 30% more likely to have a COVID-19 diagnosis in the 2 weeks following that birthday than an otherwise similar household, in that same city, in that same week." - Bapu Jena
Quotes
"Humans aren't perfect and doctors are humans, so there's the transitive property — doctors aren't perfect." - Bapu Jena
"The same sort of behavioral heuristics that apply in other parts of our lives also happen in high-stakes settings." - Bapu Jena
"The care patterns do change. Physicians are aware of the problem and so they adjust to it." - Abraham Verghese