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Case: Please select and listen to ONE part of Freakonomics Radio the "Bad Medicine" podcast. In 700 words or less, please identify the part you selected and provide a summary, including your thoughts, on the contents of the podcast. Read and reply to a classmate's post who listened to a different part of Bad Medicine. Be sure to include your thoughts/perspective of their summary of the podcast.
Bad Medicine (Part 1): This week on Freakonomics Radio: We tend to think of medicine as a science, but for most of human history it has been scientific-ish at best. Stephen J. Dubner looks at the grotesque mistakes produced by centuries of trial-and-error, and asks whether the new era of evidence-based medicine is the solution. Plus: sometimes the only thing worse than being excluded from a drug trial is being included in it.
Bad Medicine, Part 1: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations - Freakonomics
Bad Medicine (Part 2): How do so many ineffective and even dangerous drugs make it to market? One reason is that clinical trials are often run on "dream patients" who aren't representative of a larger population. On the other hand, sometimes the only thing worse than being excluded from a drug trial is being included.
Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations - Freakonomics
Bad Medicine (Part 3): By some estimates, medical error is the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. How can that be? And what's to be done? Our third and final episode in this series offers some encouraging answers.