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🗓️ 29 July 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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In buying One Medical, Amazon is primed to be your doctor. Are they disrupting health care, or just collecting more data?
Guest: Rebecca Pifer
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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| 1:07.8 | Lammu Coker got his membership to one medical through work. It was within the building that |
| 1:13.6 | we currently are in New York. His job at Google paid the membership fee and he had access to the |
| 1:18.8 | company's roster of primary care doctors, in-person clinics, and telehealth. And they had ample |
| 1:24.4 | amount of appointment times and frankly a variety of diversity of doctors available. As African |
| 1:32.0 | American, that's important to find doctors that you think can service your all needs. |
| 1:37.6 | Later, when his wife got pregnant, it was incredibly convenient. It was great to have the |
| 1:41.9 | virtual appointments where you could just call them up the nurse at any point in time and they |
| 1:45.2 | could handle it. So it's been it's been a great service and I found great value from it. |
| 1:48.9 | Now with the news that Amazon is buying one medical, Lammu is trying to think through whether |
| 1:54.0 | he'll stay as a patient. On the one hand, he's really like the care. On the other, Lammu works in |
| 2:00.1 | tech and he understands the value of consumer data. And when that's healthcare data, it gives him |
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