Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2021-04-01
Books mentioned on How to Fix the Hot Mess of U.S. Healthcare | Freakonomics Radio | Episode 456
Mentioned: The Price We Pay by Marty Makary and Birdwatcher by Elizabeth Rosenthal.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Price We Pay
Discussed“and that is Marty McCary he is a surgeon at Johns Hopkins and the author of the price we pay what broke American Health Care and how to fix it”
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Birdwatcher
Discussed“in a book called an American sickness The Physician journalist Elizabeth Rosenthal describes the industrialization of U.S health care”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Price We Pay
“there was a researcher who called 101 hospitals that do heart surgery in the United States and asked what's the price of a standard cabbage or coronary artery bypass surgery that again is the Johns Hopkins surgeon and researcher Marty McCary the author of the price we pay”
Plugged Freakonomics
“it brings to mind to study we described in our first Freakonomics book about a bunch of day care centers in Haifa Israel”