Will high tech innovations actually improve health outcomes?:
We've talked about this before, but yet another reminder that we know how to better care for people, we just are not doing it yet.
"If you really want to see the future of medicine, skip TEDMED and head over to Camden, New Jersey"
“There is a bias in medicine against talking to people and for cutting, scanning and chopping into them. If this was a pill or or a machine with these results it would be front-page news in the Wall Street Journal. If we could get these results for your grandmother, you’d say, ‘Of course I want that.’ But then you’d say, what are the risks? Does she need to have chemotherapy? Does she need to be put in a scanner? Is it a surgery? And you’d say, no, you just have to have a nurse come visit her every week.”
