our own system
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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It’s Free!
Well, not really. But it’s sort of like that:
It’s a very odd system where we make purchasing decisions on behalf of patients but we don’t know what anything costs. There’s no disincentive to ordering tests — all we have to do is click a button and we’ve ordered it.
Above, the words of Dr. Neel Shah, a resident at Brigham and Women’s in a New York Times article. Below, those of Dr. Michael Whitcomb, former senior vice president for medical education at the American Association of Medical Colleges:
Medical schools have done a really terrible job over the years in educating students about the system that they’re going to encounter.
Healthcare, in general, has done a pretty terrible job over the years in educating patients about the system they encounter.
