042 – Why Healthcare is Flawed & How to Improve It:<br> The Work of Dr. Lawrence Weed

June 29, 2017
042 – Why Healthcare is Flawed & How to Improve It:<br> The Work of Dr. Lawrence Weed
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042 – Why Healthcare is Flawed & How to Improve It:<br> The Work of Dr. Lawrence Weed

Jun 29 2017 |

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Show Notes

In This Episode:

The patient must have a copy of his own record. He must be involved with organizing and recording the variables so that the course of his own data on disease and treatment will slowly reveal to him what the best care for him should be.” — Dr. Lawrence Weed, “Your Health Care and How to Manage It” (1975)

Dr. K discusses the flaws of healthcare and how medicine could be improved, per the insights of visionary healthcare reformer Dr. Lawrence Weed, who died earlier this month at age 93. She covers:

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Related Resources:

Dr. Lawrence Weed and Dr. Leslie KernisanDr. Weed & Dr. K, in Vermont in 2013.
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