As one researcher told us: “We’ve engineered a world where the most distracting device ever made is also the one we use to listen to music in the car." A new study tries to measure the cost.
 
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 <li>SOURCES:
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 <li><a href="https://hcp.hms.harvard.edu/people/anupam-b-jena" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bapu Jena</a>, economist, physician, and professor at Harvard Medical School.</li>
 <li><a href="https://hcp.hms.harvard.edu/people/christopher-worsham" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chris Worsham</a>, pulmonary and critical-care physician at Mass General Hospital, health-policy and public-health researcher at Harvard Medical School.</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishal-patel-md-mph-3641b6158/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vishal Patel</a>, surgery resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital, researcher at Harvard Medical School.</li>
 </ul></li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
 <li>RESOURCES:
 <ul>
 <li>"<a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w34866" rel="noopener noreferrer">Smartphones, Online Music Streaming, and Traffic Fatalities</a>," by Vishal Patel, Christopher Worsham, Michael Liu, and Bapu Jena (NBER, 2026).</li>
 <li><a href="https://amzn.to/3NNLuxk" rel="noopener noreferrer">Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health</a>, by Anupam Jena and Christopher Worsham (2023).</li>
 <li>"<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25531231/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mortality and treatment patterns among patients hospitalized with acute cardiovascular conditions during dates of national cardiology meetings</a>," by Bapu Jena, Vinay Prasad, Dana Goldman, and John Romley (JAMA Internal Medicine, 2015).</li>
 <li>"<a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1148365" rel="noopener noreferrer">Road Crash Fatalities on US Income Tax Days</a>," by Donald Redelmeier and Christopher Yarnell (JAMA, 2012).</li>
 <li>"<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12855328/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Memories of colonoscopy: a randomized trial</a>," by Donald Redelmeier, Joel Katz, and Daniel Kahneman (PAIN, 2003).</li>
 </ul></li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
 <li>EXTRAS:
 <ul>
 <li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-there-so-much-fraud-in-academia/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia?</a>" by Freakonomics Radio (2024).</li>
 <li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-flying-safer-than-driving/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Why Is Flying Safer Than Driving?</a>" by Freakonomics Radio (2023).</li>
 <li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-the-u-s-so-good-at-killing-pedestrians/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Why Is the U.S. So Good at Killing Pedestrians?</a>" by Freakonomics Radio (2023).</li>
 </ul></li>
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