Offering Solutions to the Health Crisis Solving the health crisis will require nothing less than a societal paradigm shift away from a disease-based, after-the fact care model to a model that embraces and encourages personal responsibility for lifetime, lifestyle health and wellness. This paradigm shift is similar in many ways to the current push for,...
Putting the Health Crisis in Perspective The most daunting challenge to our economy is health care spending. This was confirmed by President Obama in his April 14th, 2009 speech at Georgetown University: “…our long-term deficit is a major problem that we have to fix. But the fact is that this recovery plan represents only...
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SYSTEMS BREAKDOWN! There was a fascinating story in the New York Times this week: Treating an Illness Is One Thing. What About a Patient With Many? The title pretty much tells the story: that treating a patient with a single illness requiring one or multiple medications, is hard enough; filled with unknowns and uncertainties,...
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