You Bet Your Life is an essential read for getting the future a bit more right. Our pandemic year has shown us, with its debates over lockdowns, masks, and vaccines, how easy it is to get everything wrong.

But it also lays bare the tortured relationships between intellectual breakthroughs, political realities, and human foibles. Working with the films director, co-writer, and co-producer Baz Luhrmann, Del Rey wrote the original song 'Young and Beautiful' for the soundtrack of the 2013 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, from the perspective of Daisy Buchanan. Told in Offit’s vigorous and rigorous style, You Bet Your Life is an entertaining history of medicine. More importantly, understanding the risks is crucial to whether, as a society or as individuals, we accept them. Offit argues that, from the first blood transfusions four hundred years ago to the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine, risk has been essential to the discovery of new treatments. One of America’s top physicians traces the history of risk in medicine-with powerful lessons for todayĮvery medical decision-whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery-is a risk, no matter which way you choose.

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