It is shockingly common for medicine and science to get it wrong, and Dr. Marty Makary’s book, Blind Spots, investigates how it happens. From iatrogenic childhood peanut allergies, to wrongly impugned hormone treatment for women, Dr. Makary describes in painful detail the groupthink and bad science that drive mistakes. Trish on an unfolding mountaineering mystery and the painful truth about speaking truth.

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