The danger of treating patients as statistics

Season 2017

The dangers of relying on statistics and numbers in medicine.

When Elizabeth Silver's daughter was 6 weeks old, she suffered a serious stroke and spent weeks in the NICU. Confronted with damning statistics, Silver began to see the numbers as one version of a story, with room for interpretation. The author and attorney offers her humble opinion on how to consider a difficult prognosis.

AIR DATE 6/30/17

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