Friday, April 10, 2015

Freakonomics: How Many Doctors Does it Take to Start a Healthcare Revolution?


Food for Thought
This radio podcast is a conversation about the following questions:
  • We generally assume that if you're not getting healthcare, you're worse off - but is that necessarily the case? 
  • How much healthcare is too much care? And how valuable is a "less is more" doctrine? 
  • When you start to peel a few layers off the U.S. healthcare system, how does it really work? And who does it really serve? 

Podcast guests include:
Jeffrey Brenner, family physician in Camden, N.J. & leader of Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. 
Anupam Jena, trained as a M.D. and economist, physician at Mass General Hospital and teaches at Harvard, and co-author of a JAMA Internal Medicine paper discussed in this show.