HEALTHCARE AS THOUGH PEOPLE MATTER: Recent Episodes
Jeff Kane MD
During the past fifty years, healthcare has morphed from an intimate, personal service to an impersonal, profit-manic industry. In devastating the therapeutic patient-doctor relationship, this change has generated virtually all the discomforts that patient and doctors alike now suffer.
What if people take painkillers to blunt the agony of a sad and difficult life? Doctors and patients alike now bandaid misery with drugs. They could choose instead to attend effectively to life problems.
An inert pill—a “placebo”--can make you feel better. Doctors can be placebos, too, and so can every element of a medical visit. But "nocebos”--that make you feel worse—can lurk in practices, too. So what are your medical visits like?
Sure, healthcare's ridiculously expensive. But there's far more wrong, too. Take a listen...