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What Can We Do About the Hardest Patients? (Ep. 51 Replay)

Freakonomics, M.D.

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How Data Driven Care Coordination Can Be Used to Cure Cancer

In the US, just 5% of the population accounts for 50% of annual healthcare spending. These so-called superutilizers are high need and they're also high cost. What made you think that you could fix these problems using data? How else would you fix it? Every hard problem in medical history has always been solved by testing,. The scientific method is why in a really good way we're curing cancer now. Improving the care of people living with complexity is as hard as curing cancer.

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