Physicians Practice February 15, 2024
R. Shawn Martin

Michael Lewis, let me tell you about primary care physicians.

Over the past several years, a series of studies have showed the declining health of Americans, the exorbitant costs the U.S. pays for health care and how these and other factors are leading to a dramatic decrease in life expectancy. These studies are always startling due to the confusion associated with how the people living in the wealthiest nation find themselves in such a position and, more concerning, why we aren’t more aggressive in reversing these trends. For me, the answer is simple: we continue to turn to the same solutions that continue to misidentify and misvalue the true drivers of health. Oddly, this brings me to Michael Lewis.

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