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The Economics of Everyday Things: Animal Urine

Tom Brady, A.D.H.D., and a Really Bad Headache (Bonus)

78. Do Kids Cause Divorce?

77. They Make Minimum Wage. They Could Save Your Life.

76. Is a Spoonful of Sunlight the Best Medicine?

75. What Is Sugar Really Doing to You?

74. How Does Playing Football Affect Your Health?

73. Who Pays for Multimillion-Dollar Miracle Cures?

72. What’s Stopping Us From Curing Rare Diseases?

71. What Do COVID-19 and Cancer Have in Common?

70. Why Are There Still So Few Female Surgeons?

69. Home Sweet … Hospital?

68. The E.R. Doctor’s Dilemma

What Can We Do About the Hardest Patients? (Ep. 51 Replay)

67. Why Did This 60-Year-Old Man Collapse at the Supermarket?

66. Does Health Insurance Make You Healthier?

65. How Do Pandemics Change Health Care?

64. Is Facebook Bad for Your Mental Health?

63. What Medicine Gets Wrong About Race

Why Don’t We Have a Cure for Alzheimer’s? (Ep. 49 Update)

62. Dr. Ashish Jha Anticipated a Pandemic. He Didn’t Think It Would Look Like This.

61. Should You Bother Getting a Colonoscopy?

60. The Doctor Is Out. The Physician Assistant Is In.

59. The Most Valuable Resource in Medicine

58. How Important Is Breastfeeding, Really?

57. Doctors Know They Prescribe Too Many Antibiotics. Why Don’t They Stop?

56. Could Prison Be Good for Your Health?

55. This Vaccine Lottery Seemed Like a Great Idea. Why Didn’t it Work?

54. Will You Ever Go Back to Your Doctor’s Office?

53. Why Do Doctors Have to Play Defense?

52. Who Gets a Heart Disease Test?

Why Fridays May Be Dangerous for Your Health (Ep. 9 Replay)

51. What Can We Do About the Hardest Patients?

50. What Happens When a Hospital Closes?

49. Why Don’t We Have a Cure for Alzheimer’s?

48. The Hidden Consequences of School Shootings

47. Should We Trust Hospital Rankings?

How Does Retirement Affect Your Brain? (Ep. 17 Replay)

46. Could Long Covid Help Treat Other Chronic Illnesses?

45. Why Is July a Bad Month to Visit the Hospital?

44. Office Hours with Bapu

43. The Comedian-Ophthalmologist Will See You Now

42. Your Doctor Has to Go Home. Now What?

41. Is Rainy Day Joint Pain All in Your Head?

40. How Will We Handle the Heat?

A Shave, a Haircut, and a Blood Pressure Test (Ep. 6 Update)

38. Pfizer’s CEO on the Big Gamble That Brought Us the COVID Vaccine

37. Can Fear Be Good Medicine?

36. Bad News — It’s Your Surgeon’s Birthday

35. Are More Expensive Hospitals Better?

34. Should We Have to Pay for Our Sins?

33. What Do a Full Moon, the Super Bowl, and Tax Day Have in Common?

From Against the Rules with Michael Lewis: Six Levels Down

32. What is a Good Death — and Why Do So Few of Us Get One?

31. Should You Trust Angelina Jolie or Your Doctor?

30. How Do We Know if Alcohol Is Bad for Us?

29. How to Save a Stranger’s Heart

28. Is Daylight Saving Time Hazardous to Your Health?

27. What Can Bin Laden Teach Us About Medicine?

26. When is a ‘High-Risk’ Pregnancy a Good Thing?

25. Would You Rather See a Computer or a Doctor?

24. How Can You Choose the Best Doctor?

23. Is the Placebo Effect for Real?

22. What If TV Isn't Bad for Us?

21. Should We Pay People to Be Healthier?

20. Do Our Politics Need a Doctor?

19. Do Your Doctor’s Political Views Affect Your Care?

18. When Is a Natural Disaster Good for Your Health?

17. How Does Retirement Affect Your Brain?

16. An Exit Interview with N.I.H. Director Dr. Francis Collins

15. The Most “Unique, Excellent, and Promising” Episode

14. Is Uber Good (or Bad) for Your Health?

13. When Bapu Met Levitt

12. Where Do All the Bad Ideas Go?

11. Why Do So Many Donated Kidneys End Up in the Trash?

10. The Mystery of the Man with Confusion and Back Pain

9. Why Fridays May Be Dangerous for Your Health

8. A Playbook for Beating the Next Pandemic

7. What Happens to Patients When Thousands of Cardiologists Leave Town?

6. Are Barbershops the Cutting Edge of Healthcare Delivery?

5. How to Solve a Medical Mystery

4. What Do Grocery Store Prices and Heart Surgery Have in Common?

3. Why Are Kids With Summer Birthdays More Likely to Get the Flu?

2. Do As Docs Say, Not As They Do

1. Covid and the “Birthday Effect”

Introducing “Freakonomics, M.D.”

Marathons Can Be Deadly — But Not For the Reasons You May Think