healthcare
3 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 2, 2018 by Dr. Atul Gawande · across every show →
Everything said about healthcare, oldest first
Oct 2, 2018 negative
Gawande: About 30% of All Healthcare Spending Is Waste
“Estimates are that about 30% of healthcare is waste. It's going to things that are either much higher administrative costs that add no value, or are actual treatments and tests and procedures and drugs that are of no benefit or actively harmful.”
Oct 2, 2018
Gawande: Delegating Routine Clinical Tasks Lowers Healthcare Costs and Improves Outcomes
“This has also got to be the way we improve outcomes in healthcare and lower the costs, is we start pushing down the components of things that really don't need somebody with 50 years of experience, that, that you have the team members who are Who have learned …”
Oct 2, 2018 neutral
Gawande: Healthcare Has 70,000 Diagnoses, 6,000 Drugs, and 4,000 Procedures
“Now we've discovered, for example, in healthcare, we've discovered that there are more than 70,000 ways the human body can fail. 70,000 different diagnoses for our 13 organ systems. We've developed 6000 drugs, 4000 medical and surgical procedures, and now we'r…”