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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

Random Acts of Medicine shows that the ingenious use of natural experiments can improve medicine and save lives. —Wall Street Journal

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 Ma

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    Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
    Publication Date: 6/4/2024
    ISBN13: 9780593468104, 978-0593468104
    ISBN10: 0593468104

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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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

    Random Acts of Medicine shows that the ingenious use of natural experiments can improve medicine and save lives. —Wall Street Journal

    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 Ma

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