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The Legend of Healthcare by Michael Vassar
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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
