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Published · transcript-backedEzekiel Emanuel: belief
22 May 2019 Conversations with Tyler Ezekiel Emanuel on the Practice of Medicine, Policy, and Life
“I think, again, we need to distinguish the workforce problem from the problem of the way it’s structured and the way it’s organized.”
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- Ezekiel Emanuel
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- belief
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- 22 May 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Why can’t I get a doctor to respond to my email? I have a simple question; I just want to know. I’m stuck with Google. I think, again, we need to distinguish the workforce problem from the problem of the way it’s structured and the way it’s organized. Do we actually need more bodies, or could we more efficiently organize the system? The latter is the problem: more efficiently organize the system. If you look at places that actually do a great job, they do a very good job with fewer doctors and more of other people who do respond in a timely manner to emails. Most of those questions can readily be answered without doctor’s knowledge. There’s a current, much cheaper concierge model of healthcare that’s spreading rapidly. Is this the future of healthcare, for at least the upper middle class, in this country? What do you think of it?…
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