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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?

Fantastically entertaining and deeply thought-provoking. —Emily Oster, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Firm, Cribsheet, and Expecting Better

Smart, entertaining, and full of surprises. —Steven D. Levitt, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Freakonomics

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 w

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    A Hardback by Anupam B. Jena, Christopher Worsham

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      Publisher: Random House USA Inc
      Publication Date: 11/07/2023
      ISBN13: 9780385548816, 978-0385548816
      ISBN10: 0385548818
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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?

      Fantastically entertaining and deeply thought-provoking. —Emily Oster, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Firm, Cribsheet, and Expecting Better

      Smart, entertaining, and full of surprises. —Steven D. Levitt, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Freakonomics

      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 w

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