The mild-mannered MD who became mad as hell
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English - August 10, 2015 00:00 - 25 minutes - 11.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsScience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This is the story of Dr. Hanna Bloomfield, who had a "Howard Beale moment" when she received direct mail marketing that promoted cardiovascular screening tests that she knew she didn't need. Like Howard Beale in the movie "Network," she decided she was mad as hell and wasn't going to take it anymore. It's a story about how careful one should think about the evidence for what you stand to gain, but what you might stand to lose - the tradeoff of potential benefits and potential harms - from pursuing health screening tests.