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In today’s email we cover intermittent fasting and heart attack prevention, hydroxyapatite toothpaste, and random acts of medicine.

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One-Minute Book Review

Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health – by Dr. Anupam Jena & Dr. Christopher Worsham

We talked recently of small things that can change how productive your doctor’s appointment is, and this book is a more scientific version of that, and on a grander scale.

The author use what they call “natural experiments”, essentially observational studies, to determine what factors beyond the obvious affect health outcomes. With this approach, they address such questions as why kids with summer birthdays are more likely to get the flu, and why heart attack outcomes improve when there’s a cardiologists’ convention elsewhere. And many more such things that can seem like non-causal correlation, until one examines the causative factors, and controls (in the statistical analysis; remember this is still entirely observational, so no interventions are made) for other potential confounding factors.

They also look at what factors influence doctors’ decisions in ways they certainly shouldn’t, but they do, because doctors are as prone to biases as everyone else. And, for that matter, what factors influence patients’ decisions in ways they certainly shouldn’t—for the same reason. The authors acknowledge that they themselves are not immune, and you, dear reader, are not immune either.

Nevertheless, the practical value in this book comes from trying to at least be more aware of such things, the better to either leverage them, or at least ensure you don’t fall foul of them.

The style is conversational pop-science, making for quite light reading, albeit with many footnotes and a respectable bibliography.

Bottom line: if you’d like to understand more about the machinations that decide who lives and who dies (especially when sometimes it will be you or a loved one who lives or dies), then this is a fascinating book that that delves deeply into that.

Click here to check out Random Acts Of Medicine, and be aware!

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Wishing you the most well-informed start to the week,

The 10almonds Team