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Because a child's life is valued much less than a person with two years left to live...
About 80% of our lifetime medical expenses are spent in the last two years of our life.
What does this mean?
Dying people are cash cows for hospitals and doctors.
And children, our future, are valued markedly less as reflected by the pay pediatricians make vs. old people doctors. Blows my little bitty mind…but not surprising given this culture of quantity medicine. And George Halvorson puts it best:
As an industry —as a business model —health care is winning. It is taking everyone’s money with an amazingly low level of accountability for the product it sells.
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After completing a residency in pediatrics and one in preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins, I started a practice for my neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn in September 2007. People would visit my website; see my Google calendar; choose a time and input their symptoms; my iphone would alert me; I would make a house call; they'd pay me via Paypal; and we'd follow up by email, IM, videochat, or in person.
Fast Company calls me The Doctor of the Future. I've got a design and consulting firm called The Future Well. Read more about me here.
