2 comments on “Super Agers

  1. > It sounds like status quo bias is deterring much of the medical establishment from adopting that advice.

    My understanding from anecdotes is that an individual doctor who favors anything nonstandard, whether it is a test, diagnosis, treatment, or prevention, can expect to have a lot of trouble getting the patient’s insurance to pay for it. I imagine that an individual employee of the insurance company would find it equally hard to go against their policy. And the executives are almost certainly tasked with increasing profit at acceptable legal risk, rather than improving patient health.

    So I guess the main bias that needs addressing is systemic, maybe structural, rather than an “average belief of individuals about what might help the patient”, though that may matter as well.

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