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Healthcare Upside/Down: Variation and Waste in Healthcare with Elliott Fisher, MD

Published: Sept. 16, 2022, midnight

S1E43: On this episode, Variation and Waste in Healthcare with Elliott Fisher, MD from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and host Dr. Nick.

Have you seen headlines that your Zip code is more important than your genetic code in determining your health and life expectancy? This is a window into the care being delivered and the fundamental inequities and health disparities that are pervasive and amplified by the pandemic. A New Yorker article “The Cost Conundrum” focused on McAllen, Texas which is one of the most expensive districts for healthcare expenditure in the US. Did this work demonstrate this additional spending results in better outcomes for the patients receiving healthcare? Based on the standard metrics of quality of care it does not.

Your better pill to swallow is to acknowledge that each intervention and treatment comes with its own set of risks and rewards.

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