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🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 120 minutes
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0:00.0 | We have worse health outcomes than any other developed country. |
0:06.7 | The World Health Organization rates us 38 on a par with Serbia, and that's any way you look |
0:12.1 | at it, it's infant mortality, longevity, rates of chronic disease. |
0:16.1 | Something is very wrong with that picture. |
0:18.2 | We're spending more and more |
0:19.5 | and we have less than us to show for it. |
0:21.4 | And I hear so often Americans say we have the greatest health care system in the world |
0:25.9 | no not true the incredible number of kids on psychiatric medication I think we're |
0:30.8 | doing a incredible experiment with our nation's kids. |
0:34.0 | We have no idea how these drugs affect the developing brain, |
0:37.0 | either by themselves or in combination. |
0:40.0 | One of the things I've always tried to do |
0:42.0 | is to give people greater confidence in the body's ability to heal itself. |
0:46.5 | Most conditions end by themselves. There's a famous saying in medicine that the main job of the physician is to distract the patient |
0:55.6 | while time heals the disease. The most common interventions that we use are |
1:00.2 | medications. It's estimated that just in the hospitalized population in our country, |
1:07.0 | there are somewhere between 2,000 and 400,000 deaths a year directly caused by medication, this is not mistakes it's the right |
1:14.9 | dose of the right drug for the right patient for the right indication and hundreds of |
1:19.6 | thousands of people thought that's just death that's not looking at lesser consequences. That's just unacceptable. |
1:25.8 | It's my and B. Alex breakdown. She's going to break it down for you because you know she |
1:32.0 | knows a thing or two. |
1:34.0 | And now she's gonna break down, |
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