Why scientific medicine alone is not making us healthier

After nearly four decades in medicine, I have become convinced that one of the greatest threats facing American health care is not a lack of scientific advancement. It is the growing imbalance between what our health care system excels at and what it often neglects.

Modern medicine has achieved extraordinary successes. We routinely save patients from heart attacks, strokes, severe infections, trauma, and many cancers. We transplant organs, replace joints, implant …

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Why scientific medicine alone is not making us healthier