MIT News April 8, 2020
Physician and MIT economist provides insights into health care during the pandemic, and how electronic or “telehealth” service has become the new form of care.
Jeffrey E. Harris is a physician and a professor in MIT’s Department of Economics. He served as an internist at Massachusetts General Hospital for more than 20 years and continues to practice medicine today at community health centers. Harris is currently working on a new health economics textbook based on medical case studies. SHASS Communications spoke with him recently about the Covid-19 pandemic.
Q: As a doctor on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic, can you provide a glimpse of what is...