Medical Decision Making and Conflicts of Interest

Dr. Peter Ubel is a professor at Duke University and gave a guest lecture for Dan Ariely’s (also a professor at Duke) Coursera class on Irrational Behavior economics. Ubel’s lecture talks about a colleague who told a leukemia patient that the patient’s chance of recovery if he undergoes chemotherapy was 20%, which was an overstatement [...]
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