The Legend of Healthcareby Michael Vassar

The Martian perspective2500 BC

Estimate 2-3% GDP

The Martian perspectiveUSA 2012 AD

Estimate 16-19% GDP

How do we know about the“Healthcare System?”

How do we know abouta weather system?

Pre 1860’s

1860’sFlorence Nightingale

2009Atul Gawande

How do we know about the“Healthcare System?”

Rand study

The healthcare system isn’t broken . . .

. . . it doesn’t exist

Plenty of hot air (at least 16% of the GDP worth) . . . but no wind

MEDICAL SCIENCE IS AWESOME!

$100 billion per year

The US gets half the Nobel Science Laureates, for only

(less than Libya spends on Healthcare)

“raising the dead”University of Pennsylvania, Center for Resuscitation Science

treatment of phantom Limb pain

V.S. Ramachandran

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/05/ramachandrans_mirror.html#more

Low hanging fruit

Gratitude Letters

Air Filters

E-Cigarettes: It stands to reason

When I’m really worried I’d rather check . . .

ALL the Iron you need

in just one serving!

DO THE RESEARCHOr get someone with appropriate

skills to do it

SaltOut here we call it Electrolytes

If we can be wrong about salt

What else could we be wrong about?

The Healthcare system isn’t broken.

If you can’t use it to falsify some nullhypothesis . . .

. . . it doesn’t exist

But Science does.

The Legend of Healthcareby Michael Vassar