Show 1387: The Patient-Led Revolution in Health Care

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

For years, the reigning paradigm in health care has been “Doctor knows best.” Providers rarely sought input from patients about their needs or experience. That picture has been changing, though, as more people have been using online tools to band together and find solutions for themselves and their loved ones. Susannah Fox describes the patient-led […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at
0:11.5	People's Pharm pharmacy.com.
0:15.0	Sometimes it seems as if the health care system is designed for providers instead of patients.
0:21.0	How can we change that?
0:22.0	This is the people's Pharmacy with Terry and technology has written a new book called Rebel Health,
0:40.0	a field guide to the patient-led revolution in medical care.
0:45.0	What are patients doing to take control of their data and find solutions to challenging health problems?
0:52.0	People all around the world are connecting online.
0:54.9	Some are seekers looking for information.
0:57.4	Networkers share contacts and up to the minute research information.
1:01.4	Others create solutions.
1:03.2	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, learn about, taking aspirin at the earliest sign of a heart
1:20.9	attack could save a surprising number of lives.
1:24.0	Researchers writing in the Journal of the American Heart Association
1:28.0	created a population simulation model
1:31.0	using data from randomized controlled trials.
1:34.0	They found that if people took a single aspirin tablet
1:38.0	as soon as they began to experience chest pain,
1:41.0	13,000 lives could be saved annually.
1:44.7	The investigators point out that this tactic is extraordinarily cost effective, with a price tag
1:50.6	of less than $4 per year of life saved. Many physicians worried that aspirin
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