
Hyping Innovation, Neglecting Maintenance
KPFA - Against the Grain
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The Importance of Care in the Healthcare System
I would have loved to do a whole couple chapters just on this topic. I think we can look at like preventative medicine just taking care of ourselves. Things like caring for the elderly in a deep way. And then oppose that to these kind of hypey things like genetic medicine that have so far not paid off as much as people have said they would. There's very few what are called magic bullet fixes in the history of healthcare. We can think of immunization is one of them, though those have problems too.
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