Deep and Durable Learning

Healthcare Is Its Own Worst Enemy

Mike Gray/Daniel Hindman Season 8 Episode 4

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Healthcare is better at treating disease than at creating and maintaining health. Dr. Daniel Hindman of the Johns Hopkins hospital system argues that medical professionals fail to grapple with the real determinants of patient health. Healthcare presumptuously treats even foreseeable physical dysfunction or limitation within a human lifespan as a problem it is working to solve.