Lecture: The Mismeasure of Man

Marcia Stefanik - Stanford

 
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Ralph Horwitz, MD, professor of medicine at Stanford discusses how measurement can both strengthen and weaken clinical science and care. Often overlooked amid today's enthusiasm for quantifiable results, he says, are the real complexities of medicine.

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