Predictive Health

Author: Kenneth L. Brigham
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: B00C0225L8
Category: Medical

Predictive Health: How We Can Reinvent Medicine to Extend Our Best Years

Our health care system is crippled by desperate efforts to prevent the inevitable. Download Predictive Health medical books for free.
A third of the national Medicare budget-nearly $175 billion-is spent on the final year of life, and a third of that amount on the final month, often on expensive (and futile) treatments. Such efforts betray a fundamental flaw in how we think about healthcare: we squander resources on hopeless situations, instead of using them to actually improve health.In Predictive Health, distinguished doctors Kenneth Brigham and Michael M.E. Johns propose a solution: invest earlier-and use science and technology to make healthcare more available and affordable. Every child would begin life with a post-natal genetic screen, when potential risk-say for type II Get Predictive Health our bestseller medical books.

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A third of the national Medicare budget-nearly $175 billion-is spent on the final year of life, and a third of that amount on the final month, often on expensive (and futile) treatments. Such efforts betray a fundamental flaw in how we think about healthcare: we squander resources on hopeless situations, instead of using them to actually improve health.In Predictive Health, distinguished doctors Kenneth Brigham and Michael M.E Every child would begin life with a post-natal genetic screen, when potential risk-say for type II

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