the legend of healthcare
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The Legend of Healthcareby Michael Vassar
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The Martian perspective2500 BC
Estimate 2-3% GDP
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The Martian perspectiveUSA 2012 AD
Estimate 16-19% GDP
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How do we know about the“Healthcare System?”
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How do we know abouta weather system?
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Pre 1860’s
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1860’sFlorence Nightingale
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2009Atul Gawande
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How do we know about the“Healthcare System?”
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Rand study
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The healthcare system isn’t broken . . .
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. . . it doesn’t exist
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Plenty of hot air (at least 16% of the GDP worth) . . . but no wind
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MEDICAL SCIENCE IS AWESOME!
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$100 billion per year
The US gets half the Nobel Science Laureates, for only
(less than Libya spends on Healthcare)
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“raising the dead”University of Pennsylvania, Center for Resuscitation Science
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treatment of phantom Limb pain
V.S. Ramachandran
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/05/ramachandrans_mirror.html#more
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Low hanging fruit
Gratitude Letters
Air Filters
E-Cigarettes: It stands to reason
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When I’m really worried I’d rather check . . .
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ALL the Iron you need
in just one serving!
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DO THE RESEARCHOr get someone with appropriate
skills to do it
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SaltOut here we call it Electrolytes
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If we can be wrong about salt
What else could we be wrong about?
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The Healthcare system isn’t broken.
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If you can’t use it to falsify some nullhypothesis . . .
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. . . it doesn’t exist
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But Science does.
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The Legend of Healthcareby Michael Vassar