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Curable - How an Unlikely Group of Radical Innovators Is Trying to Transform our Health Care System (Hardcover)
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Curable - How an Unlikely Group of Radical Innovators Is Trying to Transform our Health Care System (Hardcover)
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Smart metrics, slow thinking, off-label drugs, and a
“Moneyball” prescription for fixing modern medicine--by the
author of Tripping Over the Truth The United States is fast
becoming the sickest nation in the Western world. Cancer rates
continue to rise. There is an epidemic of chronic disease in
children. Even with all the money and modern innovations in
science, the country’s health care system is beyond broken.
Clearly there is a glitch in the system. But what if the solution
has been here all along, and we’ve just been too blind to see it?
In Curable journalist and health care advocate Travis
Christofferson looks at medicine through a magnifying glass and
asks an important question: What if the roots of the current US
health care crisis are psychological and systemic, perpetuated not
just by corporate influence and the powers that be, but by you and
me? It is now known that human perception is based on deeply
entrenched patterns of irrational thought, which we attach
ourselves to religiously. So how does this implicate the very
scientific research and data that doctors rely on to successfully
treat their patients? A page-turning inquiry into a “moneyball
approach to medicine,” Curable explores the links between
revolutionary baseball analytics; Nobel Prize–winning
psychological research on confirmation bias; wildly successful
maverick economic philosophy; the history of the radical mastectomy
and the rise of the clinical trial; cutting edge treatments
routinely overlooked by regulatory bodies; and outdated medical
models that prioritize profit over prevention. As stark as things
are, Christofferson asks us to see health care not as a toppling
house of cards, but as a badly organized system that is inherently
fixable. How do we fix it? First we must reframe the conflict
between doctors’ intuition and statistical data. Then we must
design better systems that can support doctors who are increasingly
overwhelmed with the complexity of modern medicine. Curable
outlines the future of medicine, detailing brilliant examples of
new health care systems that prove we can do better. It turns out
we have more control over our health (and happiness) than we think.
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