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Podcast: New Books in Medicine
Episode: Jessie Singer, "There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and DisasterâWho Profits and Who Pays the Price" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Description: We hear it all the time: âSorry, it was just an accident.â And weâve been deeply conditioned to just accept that explanation and move on. But, as Jessie Singer argues convincingly in There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and DisasterâWho Profits and Who Pays the Price (Simon and Schuster, 2022), there are no such things as accidents. The vast majority of mishaps are not random but predictable and preventable. Singer uncovers how the term âaccidentâ protects those in power and leaves the most vulnerable in harmâs way, preventing investigations, pushing off debts, blaming the victims, dilutin...