
Return to Healing: Common Sense Health Care
The authors of A Return to Healing give you tips and advice about how to improve your health and negotiate an often deceptive health care system. And it all comes down to common sense!
Podcasting since 2025 • 11 episodes
Return to Healing: Common Sense Health Care
Latest Episodes
The Dangers of Specialty Care: Misplaced incentives lead to expensive and dangerous outcomes
Alan and Andy discuss specialty care and its inherent dangers. We tell about specific patient examples, why excessive specialization seems appealing but results in over-testing and over-treatment, and how we can instantly change policy to...
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19:14

Cancer Screening
Alan and Andy discuss cancer screening, focusing on breast and colon. These screening tests can save lives, but just how much do they help you as an individual, what are the risks, and is there a point in your life that they are not helpf...
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13:44

The perils of PSA Prostate Cancer Screening
We will discuss cancer screening in the next two segments, but will start with the PSA. Why this test? Because it is the poster child of what is wrong with screening. One third of men develop prostate cancer in their lives, bu...
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12:17

The Impact of the Pharmaceutical Industry on healthcare
The Drug Industry was front and center in the creation of our health care industry. The reforms that created modern healthcare in 1911 and beyond were predicated on developing a research infrastructure in medical schools and in the medica...
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13:58
