Pulling Back The Curtain: How Medicine is Really Practiced in the U.S. | Otis Brawley
The Lindsey Elmore Show
Lindsey Elmore
5.0 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lindsay Elmore show, everybody. We have a problem in American health care. |
| 0:07.0 | We have the overtreatment of the rich and the undertreatment of the poor, and there are financial conflicts of interest that determine the care that physicians provide. |
| 0:17.9 | Insurance companies don't demand the best or even the least expensive care, and |
| 0:24.0 | pharmaceutical companies are more concerned with selling drugs, regardless of whether or not |
| 0:30.4 | they improve health or do harm. My guest today is Dr. Otis Brawley. He is the chief medical and scientific officer of the |
| 0:42.0 | American Cancer Society and an oncologist with a dazzling clinical research and policy career. |
| 0:50.5 | His newest book is How We Do Harm. And it pulls back the curtain on how medicine is really practiced in the United States. |
| 1:01.2 | This is The Lindsay Elmore Show. |
| 1:03.4 | Welcome to The Lindsay Elmore Show, a podcast for people who deserve to be healthy with honest, open, and enlightening conversations with doctors, thought leaders, |
| 1:14.6 | creatives, and spiritual gurus, you'll walk away with simple and tangible tips and tricks |
| 1:21.5 | that allow you to live your healthiest life so you can pursue your dreams, overcome obstacles, and leave your mark. |
| 1:31.1 | Dr. Otis Brawley is a globally recognized expert in cancer prevention and control. |
| 1:37.6 | He has worked to reduce over-screening of medical conditions, which has revolutionized patient |
| 1:43.9 | treatment by increasing quality of |
| 1:46.1 | life and reducing health disparities. Brawley's research focuses on developing cancer screening strategies |
| 1:53.9 | and ensuring their effectiveness. He has championed efforts to decrease smoking and implement |
| 2:00.0 | other lifestyle risk reduction programs, |
| 2:02.7 | as well as to provide critical support to cancer patients and concentrate cancer control efforts |
| 2:08.9 | in areas where they can be the most effective. Brawley currently leads a broad interdisciplinary |
| 2:16.1 | research effort on cancer health disparities at the |
| 2:19.4 | Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, striving to close |
| 2:26.9 | racial, economic, and social disparities in the prevention, detection, and treatment of cancer |
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