Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2012-04-25

Books mentioned on 72. Lottery Loopholes and Deadly Doctors

1 book · With Peter Tufano, Melissa Carney, Robert Cape, Dave Adams, Billie June Smith, Timothy Flacke, Gordon Medenica, Leo DiBonino, Michael Barr, Sherwin Nuland, Michael Langberg, Austin Goolsbee, Annamaria Lusardi, Lauren Willis · Listen

What do you do when smart people keep making stupid mistakes? And: are we a nation of financial illiterates?

Stephen Dubner discussed The Doctors' Plague by Sherwin B. Nuland.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. The Doctors' Plague

    Sherwin B. Nuland · at 40:22

    The Doctors' Plague by Sherwin B.

    Discussed
    “That's Sherwin Nuland. He's a professor of medicine at Yale. He wrote a book called The Doctor's Plague about the situation at Vienna General.”
    Where to get it