Freakonomics, M.D.
By Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher
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Subscribers: 2239
Reviews: 5
Episodes: 87
Aug 27, 2022
They definitely push a certain political perspective but here I am still listening because it provides value to my life so I can't rate it any lower than 4/5. I like how many of my prior assumptions about healthcare have been disproven.
Jun 4, 2022
May 29, 2022
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Jan 8, 2022
Meandering, repetitive and heavily influenced by CTR, podcast tries too hard to push social justice issues.
Sep 14, 2021
Description
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The Economics of Everyday Things: Animal Urine
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Tom Brady, A.D.H.D., and a Really Bad Headache (Bonus)
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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78. Do Kids Cause Divorce?
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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77. They Make Minimum Wage. They Could Save Your Life.
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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76. Is a Spoonful of Sunlight the Best Medicine?
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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75. What Is Sugar Really Doing to You?
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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74. How Does Playing Football Affect Your Health?
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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73. Who Pays for Multimillion-Dollar Miracle Cures?
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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72. What’s Stopping Us From Curing Rare Diseases?
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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71. What Do COVID-19 and Cancer Have in Common?
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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70. Why Are There Still So Few Female Surgeons?
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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69. Home Sweet … Hospital?
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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68. The E.R. Doctor’s Dilemma
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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What Can We Do About the Hardest Patients? (Ep. 51 Replay)
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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67. Why Did This 60-Year-Old Man Collapse at the Supermarket?
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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66. Does Health Insurance Make You Healthier?
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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65. How Do Pandemics Change Health Care?
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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64. Is Facebook Bad for Your Mental Health?
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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63. What Medicine Gets Wrong About Race
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Why Don’t We Have a Cure for Alzheimer’s? (Ep. 49 Update)
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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62. Dr. Ashish Jha Anticipated a Pandemic. He Didn’t Think It Would Look Like This.
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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61. Should You Bother Getting a Colonoscopy?
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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60. The Doctor Is Out. The Physician Assistant Is In.
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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59. The Most Valuable Resource in Medicine
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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58. How Important Is Breastfeeding, Really?
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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57. Doctors Know They Prescribe Too Many Antibiotics. Why Don’t They Stop?
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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56. Could Prison Be Good for Your Health?
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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55. This Vaccine Lottery Seemed Like a Great Idea. Why Didn’t it Work?
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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54. Will You Ever Go Back to Your Doctor’s Office?
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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53. Why Do Doctors Have to Play Defense?
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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52. Who Gets a Heart Disease Test?
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Why Fridays May Be Dangerous for Your Health (Ep. 9 Replay)
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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51. What Can We Do About the Hardest Patients?
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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50. What Happens When a Hospital Closes?
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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49. Why Don’t We Have a Cure for Alzheimer’s?
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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48. The Hidden Consequences of School Shootings
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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47. Should We Trust Hospital Rankings?
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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How Does Retirement Affect Your Brain? (Ep. 17 Replay)
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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46. Could Long Covid Help Treat Other Chronic Illnesses?
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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45. Why Is July a Bad Month to Visit the Hospital?
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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44. Office Hours with Bapu
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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43. The Comedian-Ophthalmologist Will See You Now
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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42. Your Doctor Has to Go Home. Now What?
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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41. Is Rainy Day Joint Pain All in Your Head?
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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40. How Will We Handle the Heat?
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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A Shave, a Haircut, and a Blood Pressure Test (Ep. 6 Update)
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May 27, 2022 |
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38. Pfizer’s CEO on the Big Gamble That Brought Us the COVID Vaccine
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May 20, 2022 |
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37. Can Fear Be Good Medicine?
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May 13, 2022 |
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36. Bad News — It’s Your Surgeon’s Birthday
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May 06, 2022 |
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35. Are More Expensive Hospitals Better?
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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34. Should We Have to Pay for Our Sins?
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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33. What Do a Full Moon, the Super Bowl, and Tax Day Have in Common?
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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From Against the Rules with Michael Lewis: Six Levels Down
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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32. What is a Good Death — and Why Do So Few of Us Get One?
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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31. Should You Trust Angelina Jolie or Your Doctor?
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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30. How Do We Know if Alcohol Is Bad for Us?
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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29. How to Save a Stranger’s Heart
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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28. Is Daylight Saving Time Hazardous to Your Health?
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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27. What Can Bin Laden Teach Us About Medicine?
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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26. When is a ‘High-Risk’ Pregnancy a Good Thing?
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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25. Would You Rather See a Computer or a Doctor?
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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24. How Can You Choose the Best Doctor?
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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23. Is the Placebo Effect for Real?
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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22. What If TV Isn't Bad for Us?
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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21. Should We Pay People to Be Healthier?
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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20. Do Our Politics Need a Doctor?
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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19. Do Your Doctor’s Political Views Affect Your Care?
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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18. When Is a Natural Disaster Good for Your Health?
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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17. How Does Retirement Affect Your Brain?
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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16. An Exit Interview with N.I.H. Director Dr. Francis Collins
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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15. The Most “Unique, Excellent, and Promising” Episode
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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14. Is Uber Good (or Bad) for Your Health?
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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13. When Bapu Met Levitt
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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12. Where Do All the Bad Ideas Go?
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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11. Why Do So Many Donated Kidneys End Up in the Trash?
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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10. The Mystery of the Man with Confusion and Back Pain
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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9. Why Fridays May Be Dangerous for Your Health
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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8. A Playbook for Beating the Next Pandemic
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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7. What Happens to Patients When Thousands of Cardiologists Leave Town?
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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6. Are Barbershops the Cutting Edge of Healthcare Delivery?
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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5. How to Solve a Medical Mystery
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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4. What Do Grocery Store Prices and Heart Surgery Have in Common?
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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3. Why Are Kids With Summer Birthdays More Likely to Get the Flu?
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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2. Do As Docs Say, Not As They Do
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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1. Covid and the “Birthday Effect”
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Introducing “Freakonomics, M.D.”
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Marathons Can Be Deadly — But Not For the Reasons You May Think
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Jun 10, 2021 |