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Putting the Health Back in Healthcare
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Friday, July 19, 2019
Healthcare has been anything but healthy lately. You don't have to walk very far to realize that the world is becoming a very unhealthy place. Despite mountains of research, the most advanced healthcare on the planet and trillions of dollars spent each year, the United States fails to keep citizens healthy. The list of reasons is longer than the national debt, but as a physician I focus on issues that I can fix or curtail.
As an orthopaedic surgeon I see the effect of chronic illness daily. Arthritis, which affects one in four U.S. adults, is a debilitating, life altering disease. A cruel malady that will never kill you but slowly weaken your ability to walk and function without pain. I treat arthritis in several ways ranging from medications to injections to surgery. Unfortunately, these are treatments and should only be utilized when the disease has progressed. What if we could prevent arthritis? Or slow the onset of debilitating symptoms? My focus is to do both. With today's research and cutting-edge technology, we have the ability to serve both patients with the disease and those trying to prevent the onset.
Unfortunately, why would a healthy patient without a disease want to walk into a doctor's office, wait 45 minutes, pay a $100 copay only to sit with a busy, frantic doctor trying to rid the world of disease? The problem is that doctors are not incentivized to keep people healthy. Sure, the Affordable Care Act is supposed to help that, but it barely scratches the surface. The truth is most patients, healthy or not, get a significant portion of their information from the internet. I've done it myself, truth be told!
My passion is health and wellness. I want people to be vibrant, happy and reach their full potential. I really hope to prevent patient visits with this blog. Keeping people out of the healthcare system should be the aim of every physician in this country. Our goal should be to keep people working, creating, learning and making the world a better place.
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