02580cam a2200361 i 4500 892819242 TxAuBib 20230908120000.0 221122s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022056219 9780385548816 HRD 30.00 0385548818 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Jena, Anupam B., author Random acts of medicine. Random acts of medicine [BOOK] : the hidden forces that sway doctors, impact patients, and shape our health / Anupam B. Jena, M.D., Ph.D. & Christopher Worsham, M.D.. First edition. New York : Doubleday, [2023] 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-290) and index. Our lives are woven in a fabric of chance -- Natural experiments -- Why are kids with summer birthdays more likely to get the flu? -- Tom Brady, ADHD, and a really bad headache -- Are marathons hazardous to your health? -- What happens when all the cardiologists leave town? -- Big doctor is watching -- What do cardiac surgeons and used car salesman have in common? -- What makes a good doctor? -- Politics at the bedside. Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hidden side of medicine and how unexpected—but predictable—events can profoundly affect our health. • Is there ever a good time to have a heart attack? Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with A.D.H.D.? How are marathons harmful for your health, even when you're not running? As a University of Chicago–trained economist and Harvard medical school professor and doctor, Anupam Jena is uniquely equipped to answer these questions. And as a critical care doctor at Massachusetts General who researches health care policy, Christopher Worsham confronts their impact on the hospital’s sickest patients. In this singular work of science and medicine, Jena and Worsham show us how medicine really works, and its effect on all of us. Provided by publisher. 20230908. Medicine Research. Observation (Scientific method.) Inference. Probabilities. Empirical Research. Causality. Worsham, Christopher, author.