Do Less, Heal More: The Case for Medical Conservatism (with John Mandrola)

Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem, and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econal.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. Today is May twentieth, twenty twenty six, and before introducing today's guest, I want to let listeners know We'll be doing an E talk book club around the Iliad. By Homer.

The first episode of that. Book club will be with Ido Hevroni of Shalem College here in Jerusalem. Who's been teaching the Iliad here for over a decade and that will air if all goes as planned on July sixth. That will that will provide some useful context on the book to help you get started. And we'll have at least one, if not two or more, we'll see how many episodes in the weeks that follow.

And we will be using the fagels. Translation, but there are many others to choose from. And now for today's guest, Dr. John Mandrola. John is a cardiac electrophysiologist. Which is a specialization in heart rhythm disorders. Our conversation today is based on an article he wrote for the Substack Sensible Medicine.

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