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What’s Your Problem? Why Doctors Use Evidence but Managers (Mostly) Don’t

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Helen Pearson is the author of the book “Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works.” Helen’s problem is this: How do you get people to make important decisions based on high-quality evidence, instead of on hunches or habits?

In this episode, Helen explains: 

  • How a doctor’s fatal mistake sparked the evidence-based medicine movement
  • Why management is so resistant to evidence-based practices
  • How systematic reviews changed the way she works as a science journalist
  • Why global trust in science remains high – outside the US
  • What a randomized trial of pint glasses revealed about preventing violent injuries.

Check out Helen’s book here

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