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Hi there, I'm Drew Weilage and I'm working to make healthcare better for patients.

This is a blog with links to healthcare goings on, trends, and uncategorized interestingness as well as attempts to filter my own healthcare thinking through essay.

I am greatly aware of my idealistic, naive even, views on a number of topics. But frankly, I think healthcare is in dire need of more of the "what's possible/what could be" type of thinking. I'm greatly protective of my unabashed idealism but always open to reason and discourse about any of it.

This is round two of my blogging life, the first being archived here.

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If health care taught Health Care 101, what would it teach?

Ed Cotton at influx writes of a coffee shop (Intelligentsia Coffee) that has set-up a “lab” in NYC to teach people about coffee.  He then asks a stop-you-in-your-tracks question:

If your brand was to educate people, what would it teach them?

Oh gosh, my mind is flowing with possibilities.  An educated patient would be an informed patient.  An informed patient would make informed decisions.  Could you imagine such a health care world?

Ten topics (how many do you think there could be? 1000s?) that come to mind in a morning brainstorm:

  1. How to make health care decisions as a patient (it would be a year long course)
  2. What health care costs and why
  3. How health insurance works (or doesn’t…)
  4. How health care is paid for (all dollars flow from households…)
  5. How doctors are paid
  6. How hospitals are paid
  7. The complicated (and at times contradictory) relationships of involved stakeholders
  8. The art of medicine
  9. New approaches to delivering medicine
  10. How health care is delivered in the rest of the world

Notes

  1. matthewdipaolamd reblogged this from ourownsystem and added:
    This is a great post. One of the things I enjoy most about being a physician is the opportunity to teach. And I’ve often...
  2. ourownsystem posted this

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