From one of America\'s top physicians, a riveting, fascinating, and timely ( Nature ) History of risk in medicine
Every Medical decision--whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery--is a risk, no matter which way you choose.
Updated with a new introduction, You Bet Your Life is an essential read for getting the future a bit more right. .
As we have learned From the COVID pandemic--the debates over lockdowns, masks, and vaccines--it\'s all too easy to get everything wrong.
But it also lays bare the tortured relationships between intellectual breakthroughs, political realities, and human foibles.
More importantly, understanding the risks is crucial to whether, as a society or as individuals, we accept them.
Told in Offit\'s vigorous and rigorous style, You Bet Your Life is an entertaining History of medicine.
Offit argues that, From the first Blood Transfusions four hundred years ago to the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine, risk has been essential to the discovery of new treatments.
In You Bet Your Life , physician Paul A.
From one of America\'s top physicians, a riveting, fascinating, and timely ( Nature ) History of risk in medicine
Every Medical decision--whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery--is a risk, no matter which way you choose
