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Tues 9/4 7pm-8pm Peter Ubel discusses Critical Decisions: How You and Your Doctor Can Make the Right Medical Choices Together All too often, problems in communication between a doctor and patient can lead to bad medical decisions. As a practicing physician and a behavioral scientist, Dr. Peter Ubel has a unique understanding of this dangerous situation—and in Critical Decisions he addresses the problem while revealing a new revolution in medical decision-making. Critical Decisions combines eye-opening medical stories with groundbreaking behavioral science research, while offering important information and common sense solutions to promote better doctor/patient relationships thereby ensuring that the right decision will be made in life-saving medical situations.           Peter A. Ubel, M.D., is a physician and a behavioral scientist at Duke University. An internationally renowned writer and researcher, he is the author of three books: Pricing Life, You're Stronger Than You Think, and Free Market Madness. He writes for numerous science publications as well as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Psychology Today, and The New England Journal of Medicine.