Patient ownership is the key to a better health care system

I have practiced medicine for 45 years. In that time I have learned that the biggest threat to a patient is not a missed diagnosis. It is a missed owner. Every patient has a story. Most of them have a complicated one. Multiple doctors, multiple medications, multiple specialists, multiple systems. And in all of that complexity, nobody steps forward and says: I own this patient. I will follow the thread …

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Patient ownership is the key to a better health care system