Forbes February 4, 2024
It seems we never hear any good stories about healthcare. I get it. Ours is an enormous, complicated system that accounts for 17 percent of our gross domestic product. No one wants to get sick, and when we do, we face a maze of options and enter a world filled with opinions, clinicians, medications and, of course, bills.
Amid all this and our daily news cycles, it’s understandable that we lose perspective and forget about healthcare’s successes. Looking back over the last 40 years or so, I’m reminded of several big hits that genuinely improved healthcare.
I am, alas, also aware of the big, ambitious projects that failed to produce their intended results. As a leader who encourages people to...