This is the second in a series of conversations I had with some open-minded colleagues who also deeply want to seen meaningful change in the U.S. healthcare system. The person I primarily responded to mentioned a chapter in Pursuing the Triple Aim. Here is what I wrote back to him: I...
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I’m in an email group that is all in agreement that the U.S. healthcare system is exorbitantly expensive and needs reform. We come from wildly different backgrounds. The variety of perspectives is wonderful. However, a claim of some of the contributors is that aggressive medical therapy of cardiovascular disease (CVD) chronic...
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A very smart person in the healthcare benefits space wrote that family physicians can’t influence much the top 25 most costly DRGs in hospitals. Here was my response: There are many reasons this isn’t true. But it’s understandable that a benefits or administrative person would have no inkling of this, because...
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I was interviewed by Gayle Brekke of the Descant podcast, which seeks alternative viewpoints on what is wrong with our dysfunctional healthcare system. It’s an hour long, my usual rants (for those of you sick of hearing them). Thanks to Ms. Brekke for reaching out to me. https://www.descant.info/podcast/episode/4b6e27ac/dr-richard-young-on-whats-wrong-in-family-medicine-and-the-paradigm-shift-thats-needed-to-fix-our-healthcare-system