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Curable outlines the future of medicine, detailing brilliant examples of new health care systems that prove we can do better. It turns out we have more control over our health (and happiness) than we think.
Curable outlines the future of medicine, detailing brilliant examples of new health care systems that prove we can do better. It turns out we have more control over our health (and happiness) than we think.
Curable outlines the future of medicine, detailing brilliant examples of new health care systems that prove we can do better. It turns out we have more control over our health (and happiness) than we think.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Is Health Care Fixable? 1
CHAPTER I
A New System: The Irrational Human Mind
and the First Few Who Recognized It By
Are People Rational or Irrational? « Who Was Right? “Six Sigma”
+ “Esoteric Gibberish”
CHAPTER 2
How Health Care Became a “Culture of Inefficiency” 41
The Perfectionist * The Radical Mastectomy Begins * The Rise
of the Clinical Trial « Measuring the Way Forward « The First
“Well-Executed” Clinical Trial + Skeptics Emerge + “In God We
Trust, All Others [Must] Have Data”
Extreme Variation and Extreme Overtreatment * Complexity
* “The Whole System Is Cockamamic”
A Cowboy Culture +
CHAPTER 3
How Simple and Effective Treatments Get Lost 81
“You Should Get Your Affairs in Order” + “Re-establishing the Balance
of Nature” + “Pretty Close to Miraculous” * The Low-Hanging
Fruit in Health Care + New Uses for Old Drugs » No One Seems
to Give a Shit
CHAPTER 4
‘The Way Forward: “From Worst to First” 109
The Billy Beane of Health Care * The Fresh Food FarmacyCHAPTER 5
Nature or Nurture: What Really Matters?
“Genes Are Not Our Destiny” » Epigenetics + Social Genomics +
Cognitive Traps and the Pursuit of Happiness + A New Culture
+ The Future of Medicine
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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