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This podcast provides essential points on medical ethics as derived from Gawande's Complications: A surgeon's notes on an imperfect science. Points covered:
1:10 Patients as Guinea Pigs for Doctor Training
4:40 Trade-off between High Experience but Old Tools and Low Experience but New Tools
9:30 Computer Algorithms Better Judgement than Doctors
14:44 Morning Sickness Lower-rate of Miscarriage
15:02 Potatoes Have Neurotoxins?
15:32 Jaw-wiring for Weight Loss
16:10 Our Biology Betrays Our Current Circumstances of Abundance (Our Bodies are Old Technology, Our Minds are New)
22:42 Misdiagnosis 40%; 1/3 of Deaths Due to Improper Treatment; CT...etc. Scans Had No Effect on Misdiagnosis