other / likes
M*A*S*H
“I like M*A*S*H. I don’t know if that’s a truly good movie about healthcare. It’s about a lot of things, but it’s got a healthcare component, let’s put it that way.”
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other / likes
“I like M*A*S*H. I don’t know if that’s a truly good movie about healthcare. It’s about a lot of things, but it’s got a healthcare component, let’s put it that way.”
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01 / commitment
“One or two or three percent of the population can afford concierge medicine, but 97 percent of us, first of all, can’t afford it, and for many of us, it’s just not the highest priority in our life. So we won’t pay that extra money to get those docs.”
02 / belief
“I know that. So, I would say that actually what you want to look at is the relationship between .”
03 / belief
“I think getting that — the highfalutin language of task shifting — under our belt, we’re not going to need more doctors.”
04 / belief
“I would say actually one profession that has a very high, that I’ve seen, is when you properly select community healthcare workers.”
05 / belief
“I think all of us learned from my mother, and from my father, that part of our role in life is to do good.”
06 / belief
“I think there are a number of things the government can do to actually improve the American healthcare system. And one of the reasons I really focus on the American healthcare system is, if we can really bring down costs, we can have money to spend on other things, whether it’s individually, whether it’s as a society in governments, and I think there are lots of low-hanging fruit in that direction.”
07 / belief
“I think more philosophy, more American history, more English literature, more psychology, more behavioral economics and political science, all those things would be better.”
08 / belief
“We think that smarts is what counts, but I think a lot more of it is emotional intelligence, judgment under pressure — much more important.”
09 / belief
“One of the problems, I think, of American medical training is the premed requirements.”
10 / belief
“I agree, but it’s a pretty small town. What you go to Alesund for is the kayaking around it and the beauty around it.”
11 / belief
“I think my parents, which is what I tried to do, had a very good combination of free range.”
12 / belief
“I do think it’s probably plausibly possible. I think we’re going to figure out what elements are for immortality.”
13 / belief
“I’m not sure, actually, what the best predictor is. I’m not a person, I would say .”
14 / belief
“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.”
15 / preference
“I like M*A*S*H. I don’t know if that’s a truly good movie about healthcare. It’s about a lot of things, but it’s got a healthcare component, let’s put it that way.”
16 / prediction
“I’m no big fan of it, in part because I don’t think we’re wise enough to figure out what’s good, and we are very likely to overemphasize the wrong thing.”
17 / evaluation
“I don’t know. Most students can’t afford $3k a year, and I think that’s . . . and a year of life, remember.”
18 / evaluation
“One of the things you might say that’s gone wrong with electronic health records is that they were designed by people who didn’t understand the clinical interaction. And I think one of the things that totally frustrates current doctors is, “These things were written, and damn it, they don’t integrate well into my clinical experience, into seeing a patient in the office.”
19 / evaluation
“Most of our rich friends, they went to Florida. But we would go on very cheap trips to Europe, very cheap trips to Israel, because he always thought going and experiencing other cultures increases your empathy, increases your understanding of the complexity of the world, different cultures.”
20 / preference
“I like to make jams. This year, I think our goal is to try to get apricots to make jam.”
21 / evaluation
“We haven’t really updated it much, except in this one way: we’ve cut down the preclinical time because — less of it — and it changes so fast, by the time you learn it in medical school, get out as a doctor, it’s out of date, A; and B, it’s more or less irrelevant to managing most patients.”
22 / preference
“I don’t have a lot of fancy furniture and stuff. But I do splurge on experiences because I think having good experiences and interesting experiences are what create a rich life.”
23 / evaluation
“[laughs] I think, increasingly, doctors are just one part of a team. They are typically the captain of the team because they have some knowledge and insights that others don’t.”
24 / commitment
“We have created a process of compassionate use where, if a drug’s been proven relatively safe — not completely safe; relatively safe — patients can solicit to get it without, I think, before it’s been finally approved.”