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Atul Gawande on why American healthcare desperately needs innovation

The TED Interview

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Antisepsis

Listerine was a solution to an invisible and delayed problem, germs that don't kill you for a week to two weeks after surgery. Lister tried to sell the burn as to how you know it works like we still try to sell Listerine today. And so now go to this question of making vaccines something that are going to be viral, no pun intended. The antiviral properties are a problem of solving, and it's a Solution to an Invisible and delayed problem.

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