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A Prescription for Healthier Medical Care Decisions: Begin by Defining ’Risk’
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 0:12:21
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”Risk” is a term that comes up frequently when people discuss medicine and health: What’s my risk of heart attack? Breast cancer? What’s my risk of dying from a complication of surgery? Or having a dangerous reaction to a drug? But according to Mark V. Pauly Wharton professor of health care systems consumers don’t necessarily use that term in the same way that medical and insurance experts do -- which is a potential pitfall that can lead to less than optimal health care decisions and faulty policymaking. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.