468: Dangers of Modern Medicine with Dr. Robert Pearl
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 16 June 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Dangers Modern Medicine
with Dr. Robert Pearl
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How much would you spend to feel healthy and energized? If you were truly sick, you'd probably spend everything you had to feel well again. The USA currently spends about 20% of GDP on healthcare, and if that meant we were all glowing with health and living our best lives, the price would be a bargain. But that's not what's happening.
Our reactive healthcare system offers the most expensive, worst-performance outcomes of any system in the world. It's bad for doctors, patients, and the economy. I'm not in any way qualified to offer solutions to this medical-industrial complex, but my guest on this week's show is. Meet Dr. Robert Pearl, medical doctor and former HMO executive.
Listen & Learn
- How individual incentives are messed up in the medical system
- Why primary care physicians outperform specialists in terms of absolute impact
- Why culture and the system are to blame, no one person
- Countries and cultures to model
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Robert's Books & Site
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Dr. Robert Pearl is the former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group (1999-2017). He was named one of Modern Healthcare's 50 most influential physician leaders. He serves as a clinical professor of plastic surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and is on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is the author of two books, his latest: UnCaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors & Patients.
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| 0:00.0 | I ride my bike to work and I ride past a bus stop billboard for burger king. |
| 0:09.3 | The billboard says 99 cents for a hamburger. |
| 0:13.3 | This is 2021. |
| 0:15.7 | I was a 10 year old kid in the Midwest in 1988 and there was a 99 cent menu at all the fast |
| 0:21.6 | food restaurants. |
| 0:23.4 | In the 90s, 10 years later I was in Southern California. |
| 0:26.3 | There was a 99 cent menu in the early odds. |
| 0:28.7 | I was living in New York City. |
| 0:29.7 | There was a 99 cent menu at all the fast food restaurants. |
| 0:32.6 | Here I am a middle-aged man living in Europe and it's 2021, there's still a 99 cent menu. |
| 0:39.3 | How on earth is that possible? |
| 0:41.0 | Yes. |
| 0:42.0 | There are amazing food technologies. |
| 0:43.5 | Yes, there are agriculture efficiencies that are shocking. |
| 0:47.7 | Yes, the food quality has gone down. |
| 0:50.5 | But what's really happened is consumer spending on food has gone down, down, down, down, |
| 0:55.1 | down, not just in the U.S. but as every country develops the percentage of household income |
| 0:59.9 | spent on food goes down, down, down as we value other things more than we value health |
| 1:07.3 | and nutrition. |
| 1:08.3 | Now obviously food is just one element, one factor in the equation here in terms of |
| 1:12.9 | our health. |
| 1:13.9 | But it's a big lever and it's an easy one to look at. |
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