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- Flaw
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.
- Employs
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- Nov 07, 2020
The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service. In Western Europe, most primary-care practices now use electronic health records and offer after-hours care; in the United States, most don't.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not. Universal health-care coverage belongs to the first category: you can pick one of several possible solutions, pass a bill, and (allowing for some tinkering around the edges) it will happen.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think about it. You must consider what is covered for a patient and what is not.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Providing health care is like building a house. The task requires experts, expensive equipment and materials, and a huge amount of coordination.
- Elemental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal.
- Heal
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.
- Mantra
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020