By Cody Dashiell-Earp
The first time I read Better by Atul Gawande, I was inspired by his advice: “Count something…it doesn’t really matter what you count. You don’t need a research grant. The only requirement is that what you count should be interesting to you.” Then I went to medical school, and I got scared. I learned about selection bias, recall bias, and the dreaded lead-time bias. Truth, it seemed, came only from a randomized...