In fact, Lewis - whose non-fiction titles The Big Short, Moneyball, and The Blind Side have been adapted into Hollywood blockbusters - envisions the scene with Redelmeier as the opening to the future film adaptation of The Undoing Project. He kept me interested even when I wasn’t,” says Lewis. “He was central to my ability to write this thing. This isn’t a story from a medical journal, but a scene from Michael Lewis’ new book, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, about Israeli psychologists and behavioural economists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, who wrote groundbreaking studies about the inherent flaws in human decision-making, and why leading with your gut instead of numbers can result in critical errors in judgment.Īlthough Kahneman won a Nobel Prize for his research, Lewis refers to Toronto’s Redelmeier, who worked with the psychologists on several studies, as the “unsung hero” of The Undoing Project. If it wasn’t for his intervention, the woman’s collapsed lung would have been missed, and she most likely would have died. Just as they’re about to treat the woman, another doctor, Don Redelmeier, stops the medical team, asks them to slow down and statistically look at other causes for her distress.

When her heart rate suddenly becomes erratic, the doctors come to the immediate diagnosis that it’s related to a pre-existing thyroid condition.

A young woman is brought into Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital following a traumatic head-on car crash on Highway 401.

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