While listening to NPR in my car, I heard a report on recently published research by Dr. Stephen Thomas of Harvard Medical School and his two colleagues from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and one colleague from the Emergency Medical Services in Lawrence Massachusetts. The combination of NPR and Harvard almost led me to tune my radio to a country music station, but the report was enlightening. Dr. Thomas's thesis is that improvements in the quality and quantity of medical care over the last forty years have resulted in an increasing percentage of lives being saved when people are … Continue reading The Murder-Rate Myth