WHAT IS HEALTHCARE: Is it a public or personal responsibility?

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WHAT IS HEALTHCARE?
Tuesday, March 26 at 5 pm

Are you satisfied with your current health care? What most needs improving?

Cambridge Forum takes a look at our current health care to see how it is changing.  Ask anyone who has fallen off mainstream medical coverage and into the dark recesses of illness to discover what a scary place it is to land. Where is the good guidance, the support and infrastructure?  As ever, not everyone has the same ideas about how to fix the broken system. 

Susannah Fox’s solution has been tracking the expert networks of patients, survivors and caregivers who have witnessed the cracks in the system and come up with a way forward.  Fox believes that the next wave of health innovation will come from the front lines of a “patient-led revolution in medical care” and she has written a book about this new trend, entitled REBEL HEALTH

Susannah Fox helps people navigate health and technology. She served as Chief Technology Officer for the US Department of Health and Human Services, where she led an open data and innovation lab. Prior to that, she was the entrepreneur-in-residence at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and directed the health portfolio at the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project.

Everyone seems to agree on one thing – the dire shortage of doctors and professional carers available to patients.  In an age of increasing techno-medicine, many feel that no amount of tech can replace hands-on care and human support.  Everyone appears to want the latest treatment options, yet patients complain about the lack of personal interaction and compassion. 

Dr. Allen Sussman, is a retired endocrinologist and Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Washington. He served as director of Alternative Medicine Services at Valley Medical Center working to systemize standards of practice within alternative medicine. His writing is full of wisdom and everyday observations about the role of the physician and the limits of AI.

 "I am not just a statistic" is the cry of those who feel that the delivery of high-quality care has become sterile and clinical. The practice of medicine requires humility and collaboration, listening with the heart and heeding inner wisdom. The focus is not the drug. Nor is it simply curing the patient. It is being with the patient.
SAVING THE ART OF MEDICINE.

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