PodMed – Week of December 22, 2014

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This week’s topics include the Darwin awards and gender, tipping behavior at the holidays, political persuasion and physical activity, and magazines in physician waiting rooms.

Program notes:

0:30 Annual Christmas spoof
1:35 Examined over 29,000 adult’s data
2:32 Suggests an association but not causality
3:10 Magazines in physician waiting rooms
4:10 Divided into gossipy and non-gossipy magazine
5:10 Related to disappearance of magazines not age
6:19 Tipping behavior at Christmas
7:18 Darwin awards and gender
8:18 More likely to be male or female?
9:15 Limited retrospective data
10:20 End