1 00:00:05,409 --> 00:00:07,745 GOOD AFTERNOON, I'M ELISEO 2 00:00:07,745 --> 00:00:08,446 STABLE-PEREZ, DIRECTOR OF 3 00:00:08,446 --> 00:00:11,982 NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON MINORITY 4 00:00:11,982 --> 00:00:14,385 HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES. 5 00:00:14,385 --> 00:00:16,253 THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR THE 6 00:00:16,253 --> 00:00:18,810 NIMHD DIRECTOR'S SEMINAR SERIES. 7 00:00:18,810 --> 00:00:19,410 THIS NIMHD DIRECTOR'S SEMINAR 8 00:00:19,410 --> 00:00:19,944 LECTURE WILL BE UNIQUE FOR 9 00:00:19,944 --> 00:00:20,311 SEVERAL REASONS. 10 00:00:20,311 --> 00:00:20,878 FIRST, THE FOURTH AND FINAL 11 00:00:20,878 --> 00:00:21,479 LECTURE OF 2023, SECOND WE'RE 12 00:00:21,479 --> 00:00:22,013 CO-SPONSORING WITH THE NIH 13 00:00:22,013 --> 00:00:22,647 OUTCOMES AND EFFECTIVE RESEARCH 14 00:00:22,647 --> 00:00:35,952 INTEREST GROUP. 15 00:00:35,952 --> 00:00:36,619 WE'LL ALSO HAVE THE NCI DIVISION 16 00:00:36,619 --> 00:00:39,122 OF CANCER CONTROL AND POPULATION 17 00:00:39,122 --> 00:00:41,224 SCIENCES DIRECTOR, WHO WILL 18 00:00:41,224 --> 00:00:46,028 SERVE AS MY CO-MODERATOR AND 19 00:00:46,028 --> 00:00:47,029 MONICA WEBB HOOPER WHO WILL JOIN 20 00:00:47,029 --> 00:00:49,999 US ON THE PANEL AND BE A 21 00:00:49,999 --> 00:00:51,267 CO-MODERATOR, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF 22 00:00:51,267 --> 00:00:58,274 NIMMED. -- NIMHD. 23 00:00:58,274 --> 00:01:01,244 OUR SPEAKER IS MARTIN SHAPIRO, 24 00:01:01,244 --> 00:01:04,080 PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE AT WEILL 25 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:05,081 CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE, 26 00:01:05,081 --> 00:01:05,948 PRACTICED GENERAL INTERNAL 27 00:01:05,948 --> 00:01:10,987 MEDICINE FOR MANY YEARS AT UCLA, 28 00:01:10,987 --> 00:01:11,687 ORIGINALLY FROM CANADA, ATTENDED 29 00:01:11,687 --> 00:01:13,623 MCGILL UNIVERSITY FOR COLLEGE 30 00:01:13,623 --> 00:01:15,358 AND MEDICAL SCHOOL, OBTAINED A 31 00:01:15,358 --> 00:01:17,326 MASTER'S IN PUBLIC HEALTH, 32 00:01:17,326 --> 00:01:20,096 Ph.D. IN HISTORY FROM UCLA. 33 00:01:20,096 --> 00:01:22,932 HE'S ALSO A DEDICATED RESEARCHER 34 00:01:22,932 --> 00:01:25,768 WHO STUDIED MANY TOPICS, ACCESS 35 00:01:25,768 --> 00:01:29,071 TO CARE, HEALTH DISPARITIES, 36 00:01:29,071 --> 00:01:29,972 SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT, 37 00:01:29,972 --> 00:01:31,007 PHARMACEUTICAL ADVERTISING, 38 00:01:31,007 --> 00:01:32,041 SCIENTIFIC AUTHORSHIP, AMONG 39 00:01:32,041 --> 00:01:33,476 MANY OTHERS. 40 00:01:33,476 --> 00:01:34,710 PRIOR TO JOINING CORNELL, MARTIN 41 00:01:34,710 --> 00:01:37,413 SPENT THE BULK OF HIS CAREER AT 42 00:01:37,413 --> 00:01:38,614 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS 43 00:01:38,614 --> 00:01:39,615 ANGELES, WHERE HE WAS 44 00:01:39,615 --> 00:01:40,817 DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR AT 45 00:01:40,817 --> 00:01:42,685 MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 46 00:01:42,685 --> 00:01:44,654 CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF GENERAL 47 00:01:44,654 --> 00:01:46,489 INTERNAL MEDICINE, AND HEALTH 48 00:01:46,489 --> 00:01:48,691 SERVICES RESEARCH, AND FOUNDER 49 00:01:48,691 --> 00:01:52,195 OF THE UCLA T32 TRAINING PROGRAM 50 00:01:52,195 --> 00:01:54,163 IN PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH. 51 00:01:54,163 --> 00:01:55,798 MOST NOTABLY HE WAS THE 52 00:01:55,798 --> 00:01:56,866 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR OF THE 53 00:01:56,866 --> 00:01:59,836 HIV COST AND SERVICES 54 00:01:59,836 --> 00:02:02,471 UTILIZATION STUDY, ENROLLED A 55 00:02:02,471 --> 00:02:03,673 PROBABILITY SAMPLE, NATIONAL 56 00:02:03,673 --> 00:02:07,076 SAMPLE OF PERSONS WITH HIV, 57 00:02:07,076 --> 00:02:09,011 WIDELY RECOGNIZED AS AFFECTING 58 00:02:09,011 --> 00:02:11,447 POLICY IN HIV CARE THROUGH 59 00:02:11,447 --> 00:02:16,018 STUDIES OF ACCESS, MENTAL 60 00:02:16,018 --> 00:02:19,689 HEALTH, DRUG USE, RISK BEHAVIOR, 61 00:02:19,689 --> 00:02:21,057 BIORESISTANCE, HEALTH OUTCOMES, 62 00:02:21,057 --> 00:02:22,358 CLINICIANS PROVIDING HIV CARE, 63 00:02:22,358 --> 00:02:24,560 AND IMPACT OF THE RYAN WHITE 64 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,530 CARE ACT ON PATTERNS OF CARE FOR 65 00:02:27,530 --> 00:02:27,730 HIV. 66 00:02:27,730 --> 00:02:30,032 MARTIN IS AN ELECTED MEMBER OF 67 00:02:30,032 --> 00:02:32,001 THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR 68 00:02:32,001 --> 00:02:33,736 CLINICAL INVESTIGATION AND 69 00:02:33,736 --> 00:02:35,071 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN 70 00:02:35,071 --> 00:02:36,138 PHYSICIANS, A PAST PRESIDENT OF 71 00:02:36,138 --> 00:02:38,808 THE SOCIETY OF GENERAL INTERNAL 72 00:02:38,808 --> 00:02:46,449 MEDICINE, WHICH IS AWARDING HIM 73 00:02:46,449 --> 00:02:48,517 HIGHEST HONORS IN AWARDS. 74 00:02:48,517 --> 00:02:52,455 PUBLISHED 200 PEER PEER 75 00:02:52,455 --> 00:02:53,055 REVIEWED PAPERS AND AUTHORED 76 00:02:53,055 --> 00:02:53,556 SEVERAL BOOKS. 77 00:02:53,556 --> 00:02:56,959 HE HAS BEEN A TERRIFIC MENTOR OF 78 00:02:56,959 --> 00:02:58,261 STUDENTS, RESIDENTS, FELLOWS, 79 00:02:58,261 --> 00:03:01,430 JUNIOR FACULTY MEMBERS. 80 00:03:01,430 --> 00:03:03,532 HE SERVES AT CORNELL AS 81 00:03:03,532 --> 00:03:07,803 ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THEIR T32 82 00:03:07,803 --> 00:03:09,672 TRAINING PROGRAM AND STUDENT 83 00:03:09,672 --> 00:03:10,806 RESEARCH PROGRAM. 84 00:03:10,806 --> 00:03:16,879 HE'S AN AUTHOR, , HIS TALK ABOUT 85 00:03:16,879 --> 00:03:19,315 BE A BROKEN SYSTEM, AMERICAN 86 00:03:19,315 --> 00:03:20,483 HEALTH CARE NEEDS COMBINATION 87 00:03:20,483 --> 00:03:20,750 THERAPY. 88 00:03:20,750 --> 00:03:24,353 PLEASE JOIN ME IN GIVING A 89 00:03:24,353 --> 00:03:29,492 VIRTUAL WELCOME TO MARTIN 90 00:03:29,492 --> 00:03:29,725 SHAPIRO. 91 00:03:29,725 --> 00:03:31,093 >> I'M THRILLED TO BE HERE. 92 00:03:31,093 --> 00:03:33,095 I'M GOING TO SHARE MY SCREEN, IF 93 00:03:33,095 --> 00:03:42,371 I CAN DO IT CORRECTLY. 94 00:03:42,371 --> 00:03:49,078 THAT SHOULD BE MY SCREEN NOW. 95 00:03:49,078 --> 00:03:51,547 CAN YOU SEE IT? 96 00:03:51,547 --> 00:03:53,983 >> NOT YET, MARTIN. 97 00:03:53,983 --> 00:03:55,618 >> SO I DID SOMETHING WRONG, DID 98 00:03:55,618 --> 00:03:58,020 I? 99 00:03:58,020 --> 00:04:00,656 100 00:04:00,656 --> 00:04:04,593 I DIDN'T -- DID I NOT SUCCEED? 101 00:04:04,593 --> 00:04:05,594 SHARING MY SCREEN. 102 00:04:05,594 --> 00:04:06,762 >> DID NOT, MARTIN, DID NOT. 103 00:04:06,762 --> 00:04:07,430 >> OKAY. 104 00:04:07,430 --> 00:04:11,567 HOW DO I GET OUT OF THIS THEN? 105 00:04:11,567 --> 00:04:14,303 106 00:04:14,303 --> 00:04:16,505 107 00:04:16,505 --> 00:04:17,373 SORRY. 108 00:04:17,373 --> 00:04:22,912 I DID NOT GET ANY ACCOLADES FOR 109 00:04:22,912 --> 00:04:25,982 MY TECHNOLOGICAL STRENGTHS ON 110 00:04:25,982 --> 00:04:27,984 COMPUTERS. 111 00:04:27,984 --> 00:04:30,953 SHARE SCREEN, DID THAT HAPPEN? 112 00:04:30,953 --> 00:04:34,156 NO? 113 00:04:34,156 --> 00:04:36,759 >> NO. 114 00:04:36,759 --> 00:04:37,727 115 00:04:37,727 --> 00:04:42,231 >> THERE WE GO, I THINK. 116 00:04:42,231 --> 00:04:42,398 YES. 117 00:04:42,398 --> 00:04:43,132 >> OKAY. 118 00:04:43,132 --> 00:04:43,632 >> PRESENTATION MODE. 119 00:04:43,632 --> 00:04:44,767 >> YES, OKAY. 120 00:04:44,767 --> 00:04:48,070 I HAD TO DOUBLE CLICK. 121 00:04:48,070 --> 00:04:49,572 >> IT'S PERFECT NOW. 122 00:04:49,572 --> 00:04:49,872 THANK YOU. 123 00:04:49,872 --> 00:04:50,639 >> OKAY. 124 00:04:50,639 --> 00:04:55,578 GOD IS STILL WORKING ON ME. 125 00:04:55,578 --> 00:04:56,779 THE GOD SUCH TECHNOLOGY. 126 00:04:56,779 --> 00:04:59,415 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, ELISEO, AND 127 00:04:59,415 --> 00:05:04,987 ALL OF YOU FOR INVITING ME HERE. 128 00:05:04,987 --> 00:05:07,590 IN 2017, I MOVED TO NEW YORK. 129 00:05:07,590 --> 00:05:09,358 I DETERMINED TO USE A GOOD PART 130 00:05:09,358 --> 00:05:12,328 OF MY TIME WRITING A BOOK ABOUT 131 00:05:12,328 --> 00:05:14,830 THE PROBLEMS OF HEALTH CARE IN 132 00:05:14,830 --> 00:05:15,398 AMERICA. 133 00:05:15,398 --> 00:05:16,599 AS I WORKED THROUGH, IT BECAME 134 00:05:16,599 --> 00:05:19,702 CLEAR THE MAIN QUESTION TO BE 135 00:05:19,702 --> 00:05:21,504 ANSWERED WAS WHY WE HAVE NOT 136 00:05:21,504 --> 00:05:24,073 MANAGED TO FIX THE VERY OBVIOUS 137 00:05:24,073 --> 00:05:25,241 PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HEALTH 138 00:05:25,241 --> 00:05:25,908 CARE. 139 00:05:25,908 --> 00:05:29,278 MY EFFORT TO FULLY UNDERSTAND 140 00:05:29,278 --> 00:05:31,147 THE PROBLEMS, PROCESSES, THE 141 00:05:31,147 --> 00:05:32,148 PHENOMENA THAT STAND IN THE WAY 142 00:05:32,148 --> 00:05:36,185 TOOK ME ON A JOURNEY INTO 143 00:05:36,185 --> 00:05:37,553 SOCIOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, HISTORY, 144 00:05:37,553 --> 00:05:39,989 AND OTHER DISCIPLINES IN THE 145 00:05:39,989 --> 00:05:41,891 SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES, 146 00:05:41,891 --> 00:05:43,659 ESSENTIAL TO UNDERSTANDING THE 147 00:05:43,659 --> 00:05:45,494 MESS THAT WE'RE IN. 148 00:05:45,494 --> 00:05:48,464 I WON'T DWELL LONG ON THE 149 00:05:48,464 --> 00:05:49,632 WELL-CHARACTERIZED 150 00:05:49,632 --> 00:05:50,800 MANIFESTATIONS OF OUR HEALTH 151 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:51,767 CARE SYSTEM'S DREADFULNESS. 152 00:05:51,767 --> 00:05:53,602 LACK OF INSURANCE FOR MANY, EVEN 153 00:05:53,602 --> 00:05:57,440 AFTER PASSAGE OF THE ACA, 154 00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:59,942 UNDERINSURANCE FOR EVEN MORE. 155 00:05:59,942 --> 00:06:00,943 OUR HEALTH EXPENDITURES FAR 156 00:06:00,943 --> 00:06:05,081 EXCEED THOSE IN OTHER COUNTRIES 157 00:06:05,081 --> 00:06:06,949 AS A PERCENTAGE OF G.D.P. 158 00:06:06,949 --> 00:06:09,351 BACK BEFORE 1970 THE U.S. WAS 159 00:06:09,351 --> 00:06:15,391 NOT SUCH A SPEND THRIFT, 160 00:06:15,391 --> 00:06:18,327 EXPENDITURES WERE RELEVANT TO 161 00:06:18,327 --> 00:06:20,096 CANADA, THAT CHANGED AROUND THE 162 00:06:20,096 --> 00:06:21,297 TIME IT ADOPTED NATIONAL HEALTH 163 00:06:21,297 --> 00:06:21,597 PLAN. 164 00:06:21,597 --> 00:06:26,502 OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF TIME AND 165 00:06:26,502 --> 00:06:28,471 OMINOUSLY THE U.S. HAS FALLEN 166 00:06:28,471 --> 00:06:29,538 BEHIND OTHER COUNTRIES WITH 167 00:06:29,538 --> 00:06:33,142 ADVANCED ECONOMIES AND LIFE 168 00:06:33,142 --> 00:06:33,476 EXPECTANCY. 169 00:06:33,476 --> 00:06:35,111 WE LIVE 78.9 YEARS, AND NOW 170 00:06:35,111 --> 00:06:37,313 TRAIL OTHER COUNTRIES WITH 171 00:06:37,313 --> 00:06:38,714 ADVANCED ECONOMIES IN THIS 172 00:06:38,714 --> 00:06:40,349 METRIC BY 5 TO 6 YEARS. 173 00:06:40,349 --> 00:06:50,826 AS YOU ARE ALL AWARE THERE'S 174 00:06:54,063 --> 00:07:00,236 CONSIDER CONSIDERABLE 175 00:07:00,236 --> 00:07:01,537 DIFFERENCE ARE RACE AND 176 00:07:01,537 --> 00:07:02,004 ETHNICITY. 177 00:07:02,004 --> 00:07:03,405 IT GOES BEYOND PROPOSALS AND 178 00:07:03,405 --> 00:07:04,106 HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH. 179 00:07:04,106 --> 00:07:06,208 RATHER, THE WAYS IN WHICH THE 180 00:07:06,208 --> 00:07:08,210 VARIOUS GROUPS OF ACTORS 181 00:07:08,210 --> 00:07:09,745 CONCEPTUALIZE HEALTH AND HEALTH 182 00:07:09,745 --> 00:07:12,148 CARE PURSUE THEIR INTERESTS AND 183 00:07:12,148 --> 00:07:14,650 PERCEIVE NEEDS, AND INTERACT 184 00:07:14,650 --> 00:07:16,785 BASED ON THESE 185 00:07:16,785 --> 00:07:17,419 CONCEPTUALIZATIONS, CREATING 186 00:07:17,419 --> 00:07:19,588 IMPEDIMENTS TO A SYSTEM THAT'S 187 00:07:19,588 --> 00:07:20,322 RATIONAL, JUST, EFFICIENT. 188 00:07:20,322 --> 00:07:23,192 LET'S LOOK AT THE GROUPS OF 189 00:07:23,192 --> 00:07:26,562 ACTORS, I ARGUE ALL STAND IN THE 190 00:07:26,562 --> 00:07:27,463 WAY OF EQUITABLE, EFFICIENT, 191 00:07:27,463 --> 00:07:31,200 EFFECTIVE CARE, THESE ARE 192 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:32,201 PHYSICIANS, MEDICAL SCHOOLS, 193 00:07:32,201 --> 00:07:33,169 CORPORATIONS, INCLUDING 194 00:07:33,169 --> 00:07:34,803 HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS, 195 00:07:34,803 --> 00:07:37,239 DIALYSIS, NURSING, HOME AND 196 00:07:37,239 --> 00:07:38,407 PHARMACY COMPANIES, 197 00:07:38,407 --> 00:07:42,678 MANUFACTURERS OF MEDICINES, 198 00:07:42,678 --> 00:07:44,013 MACHINES, MEDICAL RECORDS, 199 00:07:44,013 --> 00:07:45,314 INSURERS, INVESTORS, ALSO 200 00:07:45,314 --> 00:07:47,383 SCIENTISTS AND THE NIH, 201 00:07:47,383 --> 00:07:49,151 GOVERNMENT, EMPLOYERS AND 202 00:07:49,151 --> 00:07:51,787 EMPLOYEE GROUPS, AND, YES, ALSO 203 00:07:51,787 --> 00:07:53,455 PATIENTS, FAMILIES, AND MANY 204 00:07:53,455 --> 00:07:56,058 COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS. 205 00:07:56,058 --> 00:07:58,827 206 00:07:58,827 --> 00:08:00,329 I BELIEVE THREE PHENOMENA SHAPE 207 00:08:00,329 --> 00:08:02,097 THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND EXPERIENCE 208 00:08:02,097 --> 00:08:03,832 OF HEALTH CARE IN CONTEMPORARY 209 00:08:03,832 --> 00:08:04,066 SOCIETY. 210 00:08:04,066 --> 00:08:06,135 THE TREATMENT OF HEALTH CARE AND 211 00:08:06,135 --> 00:08:08,003 HEALTH AS COMMODITIES BY ACTORS 212 00:08:08,003 --> 00:08:10,306 WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE SYSTEM. 213 00:08:10,306 --> 00:08:11,607 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THESE 214 00:08:11,607 --> 00:08:13,876 GROUPS OF ACTORS, MEANING THEIR 215 00:08:13,876 --> 00:08:15,978 ATTITUDES, VALUES, PERCEIVED 216 00:08:15,978 --> 00:08:17,413 NEEDS AND EXPECTATIONS, 217 00:08:17,413 --> 00:08:19,481 INTERESTS AND CAPACITIES WHICH 218 00:08:19,481 --> 00:08:21,450 SHAPE ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR, IN 219 00:08:21,450 --> 00:08:24,186 RELATION TO HEALTH CARE, AND THE 220 00:08:24,186 --> 00:08:25,721 COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS 221 00:08:25,721 --> 00:08:27,456 AMONG THESE ACTORS WHICH 222 00:08:27,456 --> 00:08:28,891 REINFORCE EXISTING ARRANGEMENTS. 223 00:08:28,891 --> 00:08:32,394 FIXING HEALTH CARE IS SO VERY 224 00:08:32,394 --> 00:08:35,664 DIFFICULT BECAUSE OF THESE 225 00:08:35,664 --> 00:08:35,931 PHENOMENA. 226 00:08:35,931 --> 00:08:38,200 LET'S CONSIDER THESE GROUPS OF 227 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:40,169 ACTORS IN TURN. 228 00:08:40,169 --> 00:08:42,671 MAJOR HEALTH SYSTEMS INCLUDE 229 00:08:42,671 --> 00:08:43,872 ACADEMIC AND NON-ACADEMIC ONES, 230 00:08:43,872 --> 00:08:46,475 THOSE FOR PROFIT AND THOSE 231 00:08:46,475 --> 00:08:48,911 SUPPOSEDLY NOT FOR PROFIT, 232 00:08:48,911 --> 00:08:49,612 BEHAVIORAL DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN 233 00:08:49,612 --> 00:08:51,647 THEM IS FAR FROM CLEAR. 234 00:08:51,647 --> 00:08:52,848 THEY CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROBLEM 235 00:08:52,848 --> 00:08:55,117 IN A NUMBER OF WAYS. 236 00:08:55,117 --> 00:08:58,721 EARLY IN MY CAREER AT UCLA, MY 237 00:08:58,721 --> 00:08:59,788 DEPARTMENT HAD A RETREAT. 238 00:08:59,788 --> 00:09:01,957 THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER WAS A SENIOR 239 00:09:01,957 --> 00:09:03,892 EXECUTIVE AT HENRY FORD HOSPITAL 240 00:09:03,892 --> 00:09:11,667 IN DETROIT. 241 00:09:11,667 --> 00:09:14,503 HE SAID WHAT YOU REFER TO AS 242 00:09:14,503 --> 00:09:16,171 HOSPITAL ADMISSION AND 243 00:09:16,171 --> 00:09:18,674 OUTPATIENT VISITS, SALES, WAS 244 00:09:18,674 --> 00:09:19,375 CLARIFIED. 245 00:09:19,375 --> 00:09:21,543 THESE SYSTEMS ARE INDEED 246 00:09:21,543 --> 00:09:22,945 INTERESTED IN SALES, MAXIMIZING 247 00:09:22,945 --> 00:09:26,448 MARKET SHARE OF COVERED LIVES, 248 00:09:26,448 --> 00:09:27,116 MAXIMIZING REIMBURSEMENT AND 249 00:09:27,116 --> 00:09:28,651 MINIMIZING RISK MEANING POOR 250 00:09:28,651 --> 00:09:31,887 PEOPLE WITH MEDICAID OR NO 251 00:09:31,887 --> 00:09:32,254 INSURANCE. 252 00:09:32,254 --> 00:09:33,989 CONTRACTING WITH HEALTHY 253 00:09:33,989 --> 00:09:34,523 POPULATIONS AND PROMOTING 254 00:09:34,523 --> 00:09:37,092 LUCRATIVE PRODUCT LINES AND 255 00:09:37,092 --> 00:09:37,393 PROCEDURES. 256 00:09:37,393 --> 00:09:40,029 THEY SEEK NINE FIGURE SURPLUSES, 257 00:09:40,029 --> 00:09:42,898 PAY EXECUTIVES SEVEN TO EIGHT 258 00:09:42,898 --> 00:09:45,301 FIGURE SALARIES WHICH NATIONALLY 259 00:09:45,301 --> 00:09:48,504 30% ARE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE 260 00:09:48,504 --> 00:09:50,239 BASED. 261 00:09:50,239 --> 00:09:52,841 COULD WE ALTER THE INCENTIVES 262 00:09:52,841 --> 00:09:54,043 FOR THESE CLINICAL CORPORATIONS 263 00:09:54,043 --> 00:09:55,377 AND THEIR LEADERS? 264 00:09:55,377 --> 00:09:57,346 NOT EASILY. 265 00:09:57,346 --> 00:09:59,548 BUT SOME STARTING GESTURES MIGHT 266 00:09:59,548 --> 00:10:02,084 BE TO NOT PAY CEOS SALARIES UP 267 00:10:02,084 --> 00:10:05,354 TO 50 TIMES WHAT SOME DOCTORS, 268 00:10:05,354 --> 00:10:08,324 TO END BONUS PAYMENTS BASED ON 269 00:10:08,324 --> 00:10:10,159 FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE, REQUIRE 270 00:10:10,159 --> 00:10:11,794 FULL PARTICIPATION OF ALL 271 00:10:11,794 --> 00:10:13,762 CLINICIANS IN MEDICAID, FOR 272 00:10:13,762 --> 00:10:16,432 HEALTH SYSTEMS TO MAINTAIN 273 00:10:16,432 --> 00:10:17,733 NON-PROFIT STATUS. 274 00:10:17,733 --> 00:10:19,034 AS FOR OTHER CORPORATE 275 00:10:19,034 --> 00:10:20,102 INTERESTS, THEY TOO ARE 276 00:10:20,102 --> 00:10:22,538 INTERESTED IN SALES AND ARE IN 277 00:10:22,538 --> 00:10:24,940 THE BUSINESS OF INDUCING DEMAND, 278 00:10:24,940 --> 00:10:26,475 PHARMA AND BIOLOGICS ADVERTISE 279 00:10:26,475 --> 00:10:30,746 SHAMELESSLY TO PATIENTS AND 280 00:10:30,746 --> 00:10:31,947 PROVIDERS TRYING TO CONVINCE 281 00:10:31,947 --> 00:10:34,550 FORMER PRODUCTS WILL EXTEND LIFE 282 00:10:34,550 --> 00:10:36,051 OR IMPROVE QUALITY WITHOUT 283 00:10:36,051 --> 00:10:40,155 REGARD TO HOW MUCH OR WHAT COST, 284 00:10:40,155 --> 00:10:41,690 RAISE PRICES AND RECRUIT 285 00:10:41,690 --> 00:10:45,394 ECONOMISTS TO JUSTIFY PRICE 286 00:10:45,394 --> 00:10:52,067 POINTS, EXTEND PATENTS WITH 287 00:10:52,067 --> 00:10:52,968 MINOR MODIFICATIONS CALLED 288 00:10:52,968 --> 00:10:53,702 EVERGREENING, AND PREVENT 289 00:10:53,702 --> 00:10:56,138 NEGOTIATION OF PRICES. 290 00:10:56,138 --> 00:10:57,906 EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS HAVE THE 291 00:10:57,906 --> 00:10:58,640 SAME STRATEGY. 292 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:04,480 THE MARKET FOR INFORMATION 293 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:08,283 SYSTEMS IS AN OLIGO PATHY, 294 00:11:08,283 --> 00:11:09,618 INCREASE COST OF PRIMARY CARE 295 00:11:09,618 --> 00:11:11,887 PROVIDERS FOR BENEFITS THAT MAY 296 00:11:11,887 --> 00:11:13,555 NOT BE FORTHCOMING. 297 00:11:13,555 --> 00:11:16,625 HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY SEES 298 00:11:16,625 --> 00:11:17,926 SINGLE PAYER AS EXISTENTIAL THE 299 00:11:17,926 --> 00:11:21,764 THREE AND EXISTS EXPANSION OF 300 00:11:21,764 --> 00:11:25,134 PUBLIC COVERAGE AND PROD ALLIES 301 00:11:25,134 --> 00:11:30,506 TO PRIVATIZE LUCRATIVE PUBLIC 302 00:11:30,506 --> 00:11:32,141 PROGRAM. 303 00:11:32,141 --> 00:11:33,909 THEY SEEK TO MINIMIZE RISK OFTEN 304 00:11:33,909 --> 00:11:35,644 BY DENYING COVERAGE FOR 305 00:11:35,644 --> 00:11:38,046 PROCEDURES, OFFERING PRODUCTS 306 00:11:38,046 --> 00:11:42,651 WITH LARGE CO-PAYMENTS AND 307 00:11:42,651 --> 00:11:45,087 DEDUCTIBLES, M AN ENORMOUS 308 00:11:45,087 --> 00:11:48,791 BURDEN ON MANY AND SADDLE FAR 309 00:11:48,791 --> 00:11:49,491 TOO MANY WITH INSURMOUNTABLE 310 00:11:49,491 --> 00:11:50,659 MEDICAL DEBT. 311 00:11:50,659 --> 00:11:54,530 OTHER CORPORATIONS SUCH AS 312 00:11:54,530 --> 00:11:55,164 NURSING HOMES, PHARMACIES, 313 00:11:55,164 --> 00:11:56,498 DIALYSIS COMPANIES ARE 314 00:11:56,498 --> 00:12:00,969 INTERESTED IN MAINTAINING OR 315 00:12:00,969 --> 00:12:02,938 VASTLY INCREASING REVENUE 316 00:12:02,938 --> 00:12:03,272 STREAMS. 317 00:12:03,272 --> 00:12:07,743 HEDGE FUNDS MOVE INTO THE MELT 318 00:12:07,743 --> 00:12:11,046 SECTOR, THEY SEEK TO INFLATE 319 00:12:11,046 --> 00:12:14,550 VALUE THROUGH UPCODING REVENUE 320 00:12:14,550 --> 00:12:16,084 AND CUTTING CORNERS AND SELLING 321 00:12:16,084 --> 00:12:18,253 AT PROFIT, SOME TALK ABOUT 322 00:12:18,253 --> 00:12:18,720 VALUE-BASED CARE. 323 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,890 WHEN ONE WAS RECENTLY ACQUIRED 324 00:12:21,890 --> 00:12:24,660 BY CVS, THEY SPOKE OF, QUOTE, 325 00:12:24,660 --> 00:12:28,263 OFFERING SIGNIFICANT VALUE TO 326 00:12:28,263 --> 00:12:30,432 OUR SHAREHOLDERS, UNQUOTE. 327 00:12:30,432 --> 00:12:31,633 LEGENDARY COMEDIAN AND PRODUCER 328 00:12:31,633 --> 00:12:32,734 MEL BROOKS LIKES TO TELL THE 329 00:12:32,734 --> 00:12:34,837 STORY ABOUT A MAN WHO GOES INTO 330 00:12:34,837 --> 00:12:39,741 A DELI TO BUY BAGELS, PLACES HIS 331 00:12:39,741 --> 00:12:43,045 ORDER AND STOPS AND SAYS, SALT, 332 00:12:43,045 --> 00:12:44,580 ALL OF YOUR SHELVES ARE COVERED 333 00:12:44,580 --> 00:12:45,747 WITH RED BOXES SALT. 334 00:12:45,747 --> 00:12:47,282 YOU SELL A LOT OF SALT? 335 00:12:47,282 --> 00:12:47,950 THE OWNER RESPONDS. 336 00:12:47,950 --> 00:12:50,285 IF I SELL A BOX OF SALT A WEEK 337 00:12:50,285 --> 00:12:52,454 I'LL THROW A PARTY, IT'S A 338 00:12:52,454 --> 00:12:52,688 MIRACLE. 339 00:12:52,688 --> 00:12:53,889 I DON'T SELL A LOT OF SALT. 340 00:12:53,889 --> 00:12:56,425 BUT THE GUY WHO SELLS ME THE 341 00:12:56,425 --> 00:13:02,998 SALT, BOY, CAN HE SELL SALT. 342 00:13:02,998 --> 00:13:05,167 THESE GROUPS OF CORPORATIONS ARE 343 00:13:05,167 --> 00:13:07,569 VERY GOOD AT SELLING BOXES OF 344 00:13:07,569 --> 00:13:12,107 SALT, AND POLICIES ARE UNLIKELY 345 00:13:12,107 --> 00:13:13,609 TO HAVE MUCH IMPACT. 346 00:13:13,609 --> 00:13:19,114 WHAT ABOUT DOCTORS? 347 00:13:19,114 --> 00:13:20,048 PRACTICINGCLINICIANS AND 348 00:13:20,048 --> 00:13:22,050 PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES HAVE 349 00:13:22,050 --> 00:13:31,793 ECONOMIC INTERESTS, PAYMENT 350 00:13:31,793 --> 00:13:32,761 SYSTEMS REIMBURSES, PROCEDURAL 351 00:13:32,761 --> 00:13:35,831 SPECIALTY SOCIETIES APPLY 70% OF 352 00:13:35,831 --> 00:13:39,134 SEATS ON RVU UPDATE COMMITTEE 353 00:13:39,134 --> 00:13:40,435 THAT ADVISES MEDICARE PRODUCE 354 00:13:40,435 --> 00:13:42,304 GUIDELINES THAT JUSTIFY THEIR 355 00:13:42,304 --> 00:13:44,373 ACTIVITY, MINIMIZE RISK BY 356 00:13:44,373 --> 00:13:45,841 OPTIMIZING INSURANCE TYPE, WHEN 357 00:13:45,841 --> 00:13:47,342 THEY RUN THE TILL AS LONG AS 358 00:13:47,342 --> 00:13:49,311 THEY CAN. 359 00:13:49,311 --> 00:13:52,848 AT UCLA THE RESIDENTS USED TO 360 00:13:52,848 --> 00:13:56,018 JOKE THE CARDIOLOGIST HAD TWO 361 00:13:56,018 --> 00:14:01,957 INDICATIONS FOR HEART 362 00:14:01,957 --> 00:14:02,591 CATHETERIZIZE, LUB AND DUB, THE 363 00:14:02,591 --> 00:14:03,525 HEART SOUNDS. 364 00:14:03,525 --> 00:14:08,096 THE WAYS THE SYSTEM PAYS FOR 365 00:14:08,096 --> 00:14:09,464 SERVICES SHAPES PHYSICIAN 366 00:14:09,464 --> 00:14:09,865 BEHAVIOR. 367 00:14:09,865 --> 00:14:11,700 THE INCOME DIFFERENCES BETWEEN 368 00:14:11,700 --> 00:14:12,801 PROCEDURAL AND COGNITIVE FIELDS 369 00:14:12,801 --> 00:14:13,669 ARE STARK. 370 00:14:13,669 --> 00:14:17,406 IN FACT HAVE GROWN SINCE THE RVS 371 00:14:17,406 --> 00:14:19,241 WAS IMPLEMENTED IN MEDICARE. 372 00:14:19,241 --> 00:14:21,310 AT THE SAME TIME, DOCTORS 373 00:14:21,310 --> 00:14:23,412 WEREN'T SELECTED INTO MEDICAL 374 00:14:23,412 --> 00:14:25,280 SCHOOL PRIMARILY TO BE EMPATHIC 375 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:27,015 AND CARING. 376 00:14:27,015 --> 00:14:28,317 MANY PHYSICIANS HANDLE 377 00:14:28,317 --> 00:14:30,185 UNCERTAINTY POORLY, ARE NOT WELL 378 00:14:30,185 --> 00:14:32,721 TRAINED TO LIMIT CARE, ARE MORE 379 00:14:32,721 --> 00:14:34,122 COMFORTABLE WITH NARROW TASKS 380 00:14:34,122 --> 00:14:35,657 LIKE PROCEDURES THAN BUILDING 381 00:14:35,657 --> 00:14:37,292 RELATIONSHIPS WITH PATIENTS. 382 00:14:37,292 --> 00:14:38,493 ACCORDINGLY THE CHOICES MANY 383 00:14:38,493 --> 00:14:48,370 MAKE OF SPECIAL SPECIALTIES ARE 384 00:14:48,370 --> 00:14:50,205 DRIVEN BY INCOME GENERATION. 385 00:14:50,205 --> 00:14:53,709 DAVID WAS A THIRD YEAR MED 386 00:14:53,709 --> 00:14:55,344 STUDENT WHO I SUPERVISED IN 387 00:14:55,344 --> 00:14:56,445 INTERNAL MEDICINE CLERKSHIP. 388 00:14:56,445 --> 00:14:58,246 HIS KNOWLEDGE OF DISEASE AND 389 00:14:58,246 --> 00:15:00,048 TREATMENT WAS AT HIGH LEVEL. 390 00:15:00,048 --> 00:15:01,149 HE RELATED EXTREMELY WELL TO 391 00:15:01,149 --> 00:15:03,318 MEMBERS OF HIS TEAM AND NURSING 392 00:15:03,318 --> 00:15:03,752 STAFF. 393 00:15:03,752 --> 00:15:05,754 WITH PATIENTS HE WAS SENSITIVE, 394 00:15:05,754 --> 00:15:09,491 OPEN, CARING AND COMMITTED. 395 00:15:09,491 --> 00:15:13,195 I TOLD DAVID HE WOULD BE AN 396 00:15:13,195 --> 00:15:14,262 OUTSTANDING RESIDENT AND HE 397 00:15:14,262 --> 00:15:17,199 COULD IMAGINE HIMSELF IN 398 00:15:17,199 --> 00:15:18,166 INTERNAL MEDICINE BUT HAD BEEN 399 00:15:18,166 --> 00:15:19,668 ADVISED NOT TO DO THAT. 400 00:15:19,668 --> 00:15:20,769 QUOTE, YOUR TEST SCORES AND 401 00:15:20,769 --> 00:15:23,271 GRADES ARE TOO GOOD, IT WOULD BE 402 00:15:23,271 --> 00:15:23,872 A WASTE, UNQUOTE. 403 00:15:23,872 --> 00:15:25,907 THEY WERE SAYING HE WAS IN LINE 404 00:15:25,907 --> 00:15:27,442 FOR A HIGH-PAYING SPECIALTY. 405 00:15:27,442 --> 00:15:29,544 NONETHELESS HE PROMISED TO THINK 406 00:15:29,544 --> 00:15:31,279 ABOUT WHAT I SAID. 407 00:15:31,279 --> 00:15:34,349 THE PROPORTION OF RESIDENCY 408 00:15:34,349 --> 00:15:35,884 PHYSICIANS FILLED BY USMGs 409 00:15:35,884 --> 00:15:38,487 BEARS A LINEAR RELATIONSHIP TO 410 00:15:38,487 --> 00:15:39,454 SPECIALTY INCOMES. 411 00:15:39,454 --> 00:15:41,023 SEVERAL MONTHS LATER DAVID CAME 412 00:15:41,023 --> 00:15:42,891 BY MY OFFICE AND ASKED IF I'D 413 00:15:42,891 --> 00:15:44,660 WRITE A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION 414 00:15:44,660 --> 00:15:45,827 FOR HIM FOR RESIDENCY. 415 00:15:45,827 --> 00:15:48,363 I WAS HAPPY TO PROVIDE ONE BUT 416 00:15:48,363 --> 00:15:50,565 DISAPPOINTED TO LEARN HE CHOSE 417 00:15:50,565 --> 00:15:51,767 TO GO INTO ANESTHESIOLOGY. 418 00:15:51,767 --> 00:15:54,469 IT'S LIKELY HE WILL BE A 419 00:15:54,469 --> 00:15:58,840 TERRIFIC ANESTHESIOLOGIST BUT 420 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:00,175 AWARENESS FINANCIALLY WAS A 421 00:16:00,175 --> 00:16:01,043 CORRUPTING INFLUENCE ON HIS 422 00:16:01,043 --> 00:16:02,144 CAREER DECISION. 423 00:16:02,144 --> 00:16:07,582 WHY DOESN'T SOCIETY VALUE COG 424 00:16:07,582 --> 00:16:08,383 ANITY SPECIALTIES? 425 00:16:08,383 --> 00:16:10,686 IT'S NO LESS COMPLEX AND 426 00:16:10,686 --> 00:16:13,088 DEMANDING AND LIFE ALTERING FOR 427 00:16:13,088 --> 00:16:13,622 PATIENTS. 428 00:16:13,622 --> 00:16:15,624 I CAN RELATE STORIES FROM MY 429 00:16:15,624 --> 00:16:16,692 EXPERIENCE. 430 00:16:16,692 --> 00:16:19,661 A PATIENT WHO NEEDED CONSTANT 431 00:16:19,661 --> 00:16:22,731 COACHING AND REPEATED DISCUSSION 432 00:16:22,731 --> 00:16:23,832 OF THE EVIDENCE, EMOTIONAL 433 00:16:23,832 --> 00:16:26,101 SUPPORT TO STICK WITH TREATMENT 434 00:16:26,101 --> 00:16:27,869 FOR HODGKIN'S DISEASE. 435 00:16:27,869 --> 00:16:29,971 A PATIENT WITH SEVERE 436 00:16:29,971 --> 00:16:30,806 HYPERTENSION, SERIOUS MENTAL 437 00:16:30,806 --> 00:16:32,040 ILLNESS THAT MADE IT HARD FOR 438 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:34,342 HER TO ADHERE TO TREATMENT AND 439 00:16:34,342 --> 00:16:35,544 SHOW UP FOR APPOINTMENTS, BUT 440 00:16:35,544 --> 00:16:36,978 NEEDED A DOC WHO WOULD STICK 441 00:16:36,978 --> 00:16:39,514 WITH HER AND KEEP HER ALIVE IN 442 00:16:39,514 --> 00:16:41,016 SPITE OF ALL THAT. 443 00:16:41,016 --> 00:16:42,984 A PATIENT WHO WAS DISSPIRITTED 444 00:16:42,984 --> 00:16:44,720 BY MULTIPLE MORBIDITIES AND 445 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:47,255 NEEDED A DOCTOR NOT ONLY TO 446 00:16:47,255 --> 00:16:48,557 MANAGE HER COMPLEX REGIMEN BUT 447 00:16:48,557 --> 00:16:50,859 ALSO TO KEEP HER SPIRITS UP. 448 00:16:50,859 --> 00:16:52,828 SOME DOCTORS DO ATTEND THESE 449 00:16:52,828 --> 00:16:54,429 VITAL ISSUES, THE PROBLEM IS 450 00:16:54,429 --> 00:16:56,431 THERE'S A DISINCENTIVE IN THE 451 00:16:56,431 --> 00:16:58,633 CURRENT SYSTEM TO SPEND TIME 452 00:16:58,633 --> 00:16:59,835 DOING THAT. 453 00:16:59,835 --> 00:17:03,438 WELL, CAN WE CHANGE CLINICIANS' 454 00:17:03,438 --> 00:17:04,005 PRIORITIES? 455 00:17:04,005 --> 00:17:05,674 HERE ARE SOME IDEAS. 456 00:17:05,674 --> 00:17:07,843 PAY DOCTORS FOR THEIR TIME, NOT 457 00:17:07,843 --> 00:17:12,414 FOR PIECE WORK. 458 00:17:12,414 --> 00:17:13,715 SPECIALLY PAY SHOULD DIFFER 459 00:17:13,715 --> 00:17:17,119 MODESTLY TO ACCOUNT FOR TIME AND 460 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:17,686 TRAINING ONLY. 461 00:17:17,686 --> 00:17:18,887 INCENTIVIZE TO SEEK 462 00:17:18,887 --> 00:17:19,755 PSYCHOTHERAPY TO HELP THEM 463 00:17:19,755 --> 00:17:21,523 BETTER RELATE TO PATIENTS' NEEDS 464 00:17:21,523 --> 00:17:22,624 AND VALUES. 465 00:17:22,624 --> 00:17:25,460 ALL PHYSICIANS SHOULD HAVE 466 00:17:25,460 --> 00:17:27,229 PERIODIC TRAINING IN 467 00:17:27,229 --> 00:17:30,065 COMMUNICATION, NEGOTIATION WITH 468 00:17:30,065 --> 00:17:32,267 PATIENTS, ETHICS, MORALS, SOCIAL 469 00:17:32,267 --> 00:17:33,001 RESPONSIBILITY. 470 00:17:33,001 --> 00:17:34,569 AND MANDATE PROCEDURALLISTS AND 471 00:17:34,569 --> 00:17:40,041 ADMINISTRATORS MEET AND SET 472 00:17:40,041 --> 00:17:43,879 TARGETS RATHER THAN THE 473 00:17:43,879 --> 00:17:47,282 OPPOSITE. 474 00:17:47,282 --> 00:17:48,350 WHAT ABOUT EDUCATIONAL 475 00:17:48,350 --> 00:17:48,683 INSTITUTIONS? 476 00:17:48,683 --> 00:17:49,985 UNIVERSITIES AND MEDICAL SCHOOLS 477 00:17:49,985 --> 00:17:52,220 ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM. 478 00:17:52,220 --> 00:17:56,424 MEDICAL SCHOOL ADMISSIONS ARE 479 00:17:56,424 --> 00:17:58,527 LIMITED WITH THOSE WITH GREAT 480 00:17:58,527 --> 00:18:00,162 SCORES AND PAY LITTLE ATTENTION 481 00:18:00,162 --> 00:18:02,464 TO VALUES, ABILITY TO EMPATHIZE 482 00:18:02,464 --> 00:18:03,431 AND COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY, NOT 483 00:18:03,431 --> 00:18:05,400 SURPRISINGLY THE GREAT MAJORITY 484 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,602 OF THOSE ADMITTED STUDIED THE 485 00:18:07,602 --> 00:18:10,305 BIOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES 486 00:18:10,305 --> 00:18:11,540 AND RELATED DISCIPLINES AND 487 00:18:11,540 --> 00:18:15,143 OVERWHELMINGLY REPRESENT THOSE 488 00:18:15,143 --> 00:18:16,912 FROM PRIVILEGED BACKGROUNDS 489 00:18:16,912 --> 00:18:18,613 WHILE UNDERREPRESENTING BLACKS 490 00:18:18,613 --> 00:18:21,950 AND HISPANICS, SCHOOLS DO A POOR 491 00:18:21,950 --> 00:18:24,686 JOB OF IDENTIFYING STUDENTS WITH 492 00:18:24,686 --> 00:18:26,555 COMMITMENT TO SOCIETAL 493 00:18:26,555 --> 00:18:26,855 BETTERMENT. 494 00:18:26,855 --> 00:18:30,258 THE UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM IS 495 00:18:30,258 --> 00:18:31,026 SCIENCE BASED, BIOLOGICALLY 496 00:18:31,026 --> 00:18:32,527 REDUCTIONIST, HUMANITIES AND 497 00:18:32,527 --> 00:18:36,531 SOCIAL SCIENCES WHICH SHOULD BE 498 00:18:36,531 --> 00:18:38,400 A CORE REQUIRED COMPONENT OF 499 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,670 MEDICAL EDUCATION IS AT BEST AN 500 00:18:41,670 --> 00:18:43,271 AFTERTHOUGHT. 501 00:18:43,271 --> 00:18:44,506 THE WHITE COAT CEREMONIESY ARE 502 00:18:44,506 --> 00:18:51,079 EXERCISE IN TRIUMPHALISM BUT 503 00:18:51,079 --> 00:18:51,746 PEOPLE THAT ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING 504 00:18:51,746 --> 00:18:54,349 YET AND GO THROUGH A NEGATIVE 505 00:18:54,349 --> 00:18:56,451 SOCIALIZATION AND LOSS OF ANY 506 00:18:56,451 --> 00:18:57,853 IDEALISM THAT MEDICAL SCHOOLS 507 00:18:57,853 --> 00:19:03,091 DON'T SHOW INTEREST IN 508 00:19:03,091 --> 00:19:05,293 ARRESTING AND DON'T LEARN HOW TO 509 00:19:05,293 --> 00:19:07,028 RELATE TO PATIENTS AND NEXT TO 510 00:19:07,028 --> 00:19:09,364 NOTHING ABOUT ETHICAL 511 00:19:09,364 --> 00:19:11,633 OBLIGATIONS AND SOCIAL 512 00:19:11,633 --> 00:19:12,033 RESPONSIBILITIES. 513 00:19:12,033 --> 00:19:15,704 SOME WHO ARRIVE INTENDING TO 514 00:19:15,704 --> 00:19:19,441 FOLLOW IN FOOT STEPS OF MOTHER 515 00:19:19,441 --> 00:19:20,542 TERESA DECIDE TO PURSUE HIGH 516 00:19:20,542 --> 00:19:21,610 PAYING SPECIAL TILs. 517 00:19:21,610 --> 00:19:25,347 DEBT IS SUBSTANTIAL DID YOU NOT 518 00:19:25,347 --> 00:19:27,249 PRECLUDE LIVING IN COMFORT BUT 519 00:19:27,249 --> 00:19:28,016 PROVIDES RATIONALIZATION FOR 520 00:19:28,016 --> 00:19:29,718 THOSE DECISIONS. 521 00:19:29,718 --> 00:19:30,852 WHEN I ENTERED MEDICAL SCHOOL, 522 00:19:30,852 --> 00:19:32,153 MY UNCLE COMMENTED THAT I WOULD 523 00:19:32,153 --> 00:19:33,688 HAVE A CHOICE BETWEEN FIGURING 524 00:19:33,688 --> 00:19:35,123 OUT HOW TO MAKE A LOT OF MONEY 525 00:19:35,123 --> 00:19:37,192 OR HOW TO BEST SERVE HUMANITY. 526 00:19:37,192 --> 00:19:39,494 ON THE BASIS OF MY CHOICE PEOPLE 527 00:19:39,494 --> 00:19:41,630 COULD JUDGE MY WORTH AS A HUMAN 528 00:19:41,630 --> 00:19:42,464 BEING. 529 00:19:42,464 --> 00:19:53,008 THAT WAS A PROVOCATION AND GIFT. 530 00:19:56,444 --> 00:19:57,145 IN POST-GRADUATE, AND CLINICAL 531 00:19:57,145 --> 00:20:04,486 TRAINING IT'S THE EXCEPTION, NOT 532 00:20:04,486 --> 00:20:06,154 THE RULE, COMMITMENT TO 533 00:20:06,154 --> 00:20:07,222 DIVERSITY POPULATIONS, THAT 534 00:20:07,222 --> 00:20:09,858 MIGHT MAKE AMERICA LESS 535 00:20:09,858 --> 00:20:10,492 EXCEPTIONAL. 536 00:20:10,492 --> 00:20:12,928 AGAIN, AS LITTLE EXPOSURE TO 537 00:20:12,928 --> 00:20:16,131 HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 538 00:20:16,131 --> 00:20:17,632 FEW OPPORTUNITIES TO ADDRESS 539 00:20:17,632 --> 00:20:18,533 PERSONAL CHALLENGES OF DOCTORS, 540 00:20:18,533 --> 00:20:21,069 STAND IN THE WAY OF EFFECTIVE 541 00:20:21,069 --> 00:20:22,003 RELATIONSHIPS WITH PATIENTS, 542 00:20:22,003 --> 00:20:23,872 LITTLE EFFORT TO ASSURE THEY ARE 543 00:20:23,872 --> 00:20:26,274 ABLE TO COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY 544 00:20:26,274 --> 00:20:27,475 WITH PATIENTS, SOME INSTITUTIONS 545 00:20:27,475 --> 00:20:29,344 TRY TO PROVIDE POSITIVE 546 00:20:29,344 --> 00:20:30,946 OUTPATIENT EXPERIENCES, BUT IN 547 00:20:30,946 --> 00:20:32,614 MANY PROGRAMS THEY ARE AWFUL. 548 00:20:32,614 --> 00:20:36,117 RESIDENTS WHO ARE PRESSED FOR 549 00:20:36,117 --> 00:20:36,952 TIME ARE ASSIGNED PATIENTS THE 550 00:20:36,952 --> 00:20:46,294 FACULTY DON'T WANT TO SEE 551 00:20:46,294 --> 00:20:47,462 THEMSELVES. 552 00:20:47,462 --> 00:20:49,597 PROMOTE CHOICES OF PROCEDURAL 553 00:20:49,597 --> 00:20:49,965 CAREERS. 554 00:20:49,965 --> 00:20:51,433 CLINICALLY, MEDICAL SCHOOLS ARE 555 00:20:51,433 --> 00:20:52,968 NO LESS INTERESTED IN THE 556 00:20:52,968 --> 00:20:54,235 PRIVATE SECTOR IN GENERATING 557 00:20:54,235 --> 00:20:55,003 REVENUE, THE HEALTH OF THE 558 00:20:55,003 --> 00:20:58,340 PUBLIC IS NOT MUCH OF A PRIORITY 559 00:20:58,340 --> 00:20:59,774 BEYOND THE OCCASIONAL LECTURE ON 560 00:20:59,774 --> 00:21:02,077 SOCIAL ASPECTS OF MEDICINE. 561 00:21:02,077 --> 00:21:04,245 PRACTICES ARE OFTEN SEGREGATED 562 00:21:04,245 --> 00:21:05,780 BY INSURANCE TYPE, BUSINESS 563 00:21:05,780 --> 00:21:09,617 PLANS REFLECT PRIORITY OF 564 00:21:09,617 --> 00:21:12,220 REVENUE GENERATION, MARKET 565 00:21:12,220 --> 00:21:14,289 SHARE, MAXIMIZED REIMBURSEMENT, 566 00:21:14,289 --> 00:21:18,493 MINIMIZED RISK, RUN THE TILL, 567 00:21:18,493 --> 00:21:19,361 THE HIDDEN CURRICULUM. 568 00:21:19,361 --> 00:21:21,096 STUDENTS GROW UP TO EMULATE THE 569 00:21:21,096 --> 00:21:22,964 PRACTICE PATTERNS AND VALUES OF 570 00:21:22,964 --> 00:21:23,531 THE FACULTY. 571 00:21:23,531 --> 00:21:26,468 WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT MEDICAL 572 00:21:26,468 --> 00:21:27,302 EDUCATION? 573 00:21:27,302 --> 00:21:30,839 THERE ARE LOTS OF POTENTIAL 574 00:21:30,839 --> 00:21:32,007 STRATEGIES. 575 00:21:32,007 --> 00:21:36,644 REPLACE PRE-MEDICAL SCIENCE 576 00:21:36,644 --> 00:21:40,615 REQUIREMENTS IN TOTO WITH 577 00:21:40,615 --> 00:21:41,049 ETHICS. 578 00:21:41,049 --> 00:21:44,753 THIS WAS PROPOSED BUT IT HASN'T 579 00:21:44,753 --> 00:21:45,620 HAPPENED. 580 00:21:45,620 --> 00:21:46,855 SELECT APPLICANTS ALTRUISTIC, 581 00:21:46,855 --> 00:21:47,489 EMPATHIC, PSYCHOLOGICALLY OPEN 582 00:21:47,489 --> 00:21:51,192 AND HAVE SOUND MORAL AND ETHICAL 583 00:21:51,192 --> 00:21:51,893 FOUNDATIONS. 584 00:21:51,893 --> 00:21:53,194 MEMBERS OF UNDERSERVED 585 00:21:53,194 --> 00:21:54,129 COMMUNITIES SHOULD NOMINATE 586 00:21:54,129 --> 00:22:02,737 MEDICAL SCHOOL MA TRICULUM, AND 587 00:22:02,737 --> 00:22:05,106 SHOULD PROVIDE HALF OF THE 588 00:22:05,106 --> 00:22:09,144 CURRICULUM AND BE INTEGRATED 589 00:22:09,144 --> 00:22:11,112 INTO CLINICAL TRAINING. 590 00:22:11,112 --> 00:22:13,081 WHAT ABOUT MEDICAL RESEARCH? 591 00:22:13,081 --> 00:22:14,182 THINKING ABOUT SCIENCE IT'S 592 00:22:14,182 --> 00:22:20,655 WORTH CONSIDERING ROBERT 593 00:22:20,655 --> 00:22:21,389 MURTON'S CHARACTERIZATION, LET'S 594 00:22:21,389 --> 00:22:23,391 LOOK AT THE SECOND ONE. 595 00:22:23,391 --> 00:22:23,958 COMMUNALISM. 596 00:22:23,958 --> 00:22:27,762 THE FINDINGS OF SCIENCE ARE 597 00:22:27,762 --> 00:22:28,329 PRODUCTS OF COLLABORATION, 598 00:22:28,329 --> 00:22:30,832 ASSIGNED TO THE COMMUNITY. 599 00:22:30,832 --> 00:22:33,535 THIS ETHOS IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH 600 00:22:33,535 --> 00:22:35,403 TECHNOLOGY DEFINED AS PRIVATE 601 00:22:35,403 --> 00:22:35,937 PROPERTY. 602 00:22:35,937 --> 00:22:38,139 DOES THAT CHARACTERIZE MEDICAL 603 00:22:38,139 --> 00:22:40,809 RESEARCH TODAY? 604 00:22:40,809 --> 00:22:42,677 CERTAINLY NOT ENTIRELY. 605 00:22:42,677 --> 00:22:44,612 BASIC SCIENTISTS TEND TO BE 606 00:22:44,612 --> 00:22:46,448 EXCITED ABOUT DISCOVERY, GET 607 00:22:46,448 --> 00:22:50,051 LITTLE EDUCATION ABOUT SOCIAL 608 00:22:50,051 --> 00:22:54,456 RESPONSIBILITIES OF SCIENTISTS, 609 00:22:54,456 --> 00:22:56,524 PATENTS CAN BE LUCRATIVE TO 610 00:22:56,524 --> 00:23:00,895 SCIENTISTS AND THEIR EMPLOYERS 611 00:23:00,895 --> 00:23:02,330 AND FOR SOME THESE PRIORITIES 612 00:23:02,330 --> 00:23:05,733 ARE APPARENT TO THEIR STUDENTS. 613 00:23:05,733 --> 00:23:07,268 AND AFFECT THEIR ATTITUDES TO 614 00:23:07,268 --> 00:23:09,471 WHAT'S IMPORTANT IN SCIENCE. 615 00:23:09,471 --> 00:23:10,738 CLINICAL RESEARCH IS ESSENTIAL. 616 00:23:10,738 --> 00:23:13,575 BUT WHEN IT'S FUNDED BY 617 00:23:13,575 --> 00:23:15,710 INDUSTRY, PAYMENTS CAN BE 618 00:23:15,710 --> 00:23:16,778 GENEROUS BUT THE PRIORITIES MAY 619 00:23:16,778 --> 00:23:19,147 BE THOSE OF INDUSTRY. 620 00:23:19,147 --> 00:23:21,349 THERE CAN BE LIMITATIONS ON 621 00:23:21,349 --> 00:23:22,650 INTELLECTUAL READING. 622 00:23:22,650 --> 00:23:24,752 AS FOR LATE TRANSLATIONAL POLICY 623 00:23:24,752 --> 00:23:29,457 RESEARCH SUCH AS I'VE DONE IN MY 624 00:23:29,457 --> 00:23:30,892 CAREER AND ELISEO TOO, MOST 625 00:23:30,892 --> 00:23:41,402 SCIENTISTS TEND TO GENUFLECT, 626 00:23:43,304 --> 00:23:45,440 MOST FOCUS ON SMALL CHANGES. 627 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,609 LET'S LOOK AT THE NIH MISSION 628 00:23:47,609 --> 00:23:48,910 STATEMENT IN PART. 629 00:23:48,910 --> 00:23:50,145 TO SEEK FUNDAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE 630 00:23:50,145 --> 00:23:52,213 ABOUT THE NATURE AND BEHAVIOR OF 631 00:23:52,213 --> 00:23:54,182 LIVING SYSTEMS AND APPLICATION 632 00:23:54,182 --> 00:23:56,918 OF THAT KNOWLEDGE TO ENHANCE 633 00:23:56,918 --> 00:24:07,462 HEALTH, LENGTHEN LIFE, REDUCING 634 00:24:08,997 --> 00:24:09,330 ILLNESS. 635 00:24:09,330 --> 00:24:12,567 THEY DO NOT TREAT ALL ASPECTS OF 636 00:24:12,567 --> 00:24:14,969 THIS MISSION STATEMENT EQUALLY. 637 00:24:14,969 --> 00:24:16,838 SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS AND 638 00:24:16,838 --> 00:24:19,674 FUNDERS SUCH AS NIH OVERPROMISE 639 00:24:19,674 --> 00:24:22,510 BENEFITS OF BASIC RESEARCH. 640 00:24:22,510 --> 00:24:23,278 THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF 641 00:24:23,278 --> 00:24:24,812 MOLECULAR SOLUTIONS TO HEALTH 642 00:24:24,812 --> 00:24:26,447 PROBLEMS AFFECTS PRACTICE AND 643 00:24:26,447 --> 00:24:28,550 ENCOURAGES PROFESSIONAL AND 644 00:24:28,550 --> 00:24:31,152 PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARDS 645 00:24:31,152 --> 00:24:33,555 DISEASES BEING LARGELY A SOCIAL, 646 00:24:33,555 --> 00:24:37,091 PRODUCING NARROW VISION OF WHAT 647 00:24:37,091 --> 00:24:39,827 SIGNS COULD BE TO KEEP MONEY 648 00:24:39,827 --> 00:24:40,562 FLOWING THROUGH THEIR 649 00:24:40,562 --> 00:24:41,563 PRIORITIES, CERTAINLY NOT 650 00:24:41,563 --> 00:24:42,664 TOWARDS OTHER KINDS OF RESEARCH 651 00:24:42,664 --> 00:24:45,166 THAT MIGHT HAVE A LARGER IMPACT 652 00:24:45,166 --> 00:24:49,370 ON POPULATION HEALTH SUCH AS 653 00:24:49,370 --> 00:24:50,138 STUDIES, PROGRAM TO IMPROVE 654 00:24:50,138 --> 00:24:53,074 BLOOD PRESSURE CONTROL, WEIGHT 655 00:24:53,074 --> 00:24:54,342 MANAGEMENT, SMOKING CESSATION 656 00:24:54,342 --> 00:24:55,043 AND THE LIKE. 657 00:24:55,043 --> 00:24:59,280 WHEN I WROTE MY FIRST R01 GRANT 658 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,482 PROPOSAL, HIV OUTSOME STUDY, I 659 00:25:01,482 --> 00:25:04,319 GOT EXCELLENT SCORE BUT WASN'T 660 00:25:04,319 --> 00:25:04,886 FUNDED. 661 00:25:04,886 --> 00:25:07,422 THE PROJECT OFFICER WAS 662 00:25:07,422 --> 00:25:08,623 ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT MY PROPOSAL 663 00:25:08,623 --> 00:25:10,692 BUT TOLD ME NOT TO RESUBMIT 664 00:25:10,692 --> 00:25:12,760 THERE BECAUSE THE DIRECTOR DID 665 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,830 NOT CONSIDER SUCH RESEARCH TO BE 666 00:25:15,830 --> 00:25:18,366 HIS RESPONSIBILITY. 667 00:25:18,366 --> 00:25:20,902 REDIRECTED ME TOWARD WHAT IS NOW 668 00:25:20,902 --> 00:25:21,336 AHRQ. 669 00:25:21,336 --> 00:25:24,973 YOU CAN SEE THE BREAKDOWN OF THE 670 00:25:24,973 --> 00:25:26,908 2021 NIH BUDGET ALONG WITH AHRQ 671 00:25:26,908 --> 00:25:28,676 AND PCORI. 672 00:25:28,676 --> 00:25:29,978 SOME LARGE INSTITUTES DO SUPPORT 673 00:25:29,978 --> 00:25:32,080 SOME HEALTH SERVICES AND 674 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:33,248 BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH. 675 00:25:33,248 --> 00:25:42,890 IN MANY, YOU THE FLUCTUATES OR 676 00:25:42,890 --> 00:25:44,525 WITH CHANGE OF DIRECTORSHIP SOME 677 00:25:44,525 --> 00:25:46,160 YEARS AGO THE LEVEL OF SUPPORT 678 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,796 FOR THIS KIND OF RESEARCH 679 00:25:48,796 --> 00:25:49,063 PLUMMETS. 680 00:25:49,063 --> 00:25:51,332 OTHERS ESSENTIALLY NEVER SUPPORT 681 00:25:51,332 --> 00:25:53,401 SUCH RESEARCH, A FEW 682 00:25:53,401 --> 00:25:56,104 CONSISTENTLY DO, BUT MOST OF 683 00:25:56,104 --> 00:25:58,339 THOSE HAVE BUDGETS THAT ARE LESS 684 00:25:58,339 --> 00:26:04,145 THAN 1% OF THE BUDGET OF THE 685 00:26:04,145 --> 00:26:04,812 OVERALL NIH. 686 00:26:04,812 --> 00:26:08,650 SO, HOW DO WE MAKE SCIENCE MORE 687 00:26:08,650 --> 00:26:10,251 RESPONSIVE TO SOCIETAL NEEDS? 688 00:26:10,251 --> 00:26:11,152 TRAINING IN SOCIAL 689 00:26:11,152 --> 00:26:13,554 RESPONSIBILITY SHOULD BE A 690 00:26:13,554 --> 00:26:14,422 SUBSTANTIAL FEATURE OF 691 00:26:14,422 --> 00:26:15,823 SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION. 692 00:26:15,823 --> 00:26:17,258 REVENUE FROM INVENTIONS FUNDED 693 00:26:17,258 --> 00:26:18,593 BY FEDERAL GRANTS SHOULD ACCRUE 694 00:26:18,593 --> 00:26:22,096 LARGELY TO THE GOVERNMENT AND 695 00:26:22,096 --> 00:26:26,367 NOT TO SCIENTISTS, INSTITUTIONS 696 00:26:26,367 --> 00:26:27,468 OR CORPORATIONS. 697 00:26:27,468 --> 00:26:28,336 RESEARCH ON BRINGING EFFECTIVE 698 00:26:28,336 --> 00:26:30,204 CARE SHOULD HAVE THE NIH HIGHEST 699 00:26:30,204 --> 00:26:33,141 PRIORITY, HALF OF THE MEMBERS OF 700 00:26:33,141 --> 00:26:34,876 ADVISORY COUNCILS OF INSTITUTES 701 00:26:34,876 --> 00:26:40,481 SHOULD BE NOMINATED BY MEMBERS 702 00:26:40,481 --> 00:26:41,683 OF DIVERSE COMMUNITIES. 703 00:26:41,683 --> 00:26:43,017 GOVERNMENT CAN BE PART OF THE 704 00:26:43,017 --> 00:26:44,986 SOLUTION BUT IT'S OFTEN PART OF 705 00:26:44,986 --> 00:26:45,286 THE PROBLEM. 706 00:26:45,286 --> 00:26:47,722 THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AVOIDS 707 00:26:47,722 --> 00:26:51,225 POLICIES THAT NECESSITATE 708 00:26:51,225 --> 00:26:56,464 RAISING TAXES. 709 00:26:56,464 --> 00:27:02,503 SUSCEPTIBLE TO CORPORATE 710 00:27:02,503 --> 00:27:05,139 PRESSURE, THEY FAIL AS 711 00:27:05,139 --> 00:27:06,674 WASHINGTON POST REPORTED TODAY, 712 00:27:06,674 --> 00:27:10,378 THEY FAIL TO EXERCISE MARCH-IN 713 00:27:10,378 --> 00:27:13,348 RIGHTS TO CONTROL THE 714 00:27:13,348 --> 00:27:14,549 EXTRAORDINARILY EXTRAVAGANT COST 715 00:27:14,549 --> 00:27:16,851 OF NEWER DRUGS. 716 00:27:16,851 --> 00:27:18,720 THEY OVERPAY FOR PROCEDURES 717 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,290 RELATIVE TO COGNITIVE SERVICES. 718 00:27:22,290 --> 00:27:23,091 THEY PROMOTE OVERSPECIALIZATION 719 00:27:23,091 --> 00:27:25,159 IN TECHNICAL FIELDS THROUGH THE 720 00:27:25,159 --> 00:27:32,166 DISTORTED FEE SCHEDULE AND 721 00:27:32,166 --> 00:27:35,903 EDUCATIONAL SUBSIDIES AND PREFER 722 00:27:35,903 --> 00:27:38,406 MOONSHOTS THAT ARE ASOCIAL. 723 00:27:38,406 --> 00:27:45,012 OUR PATIENTS, ARE THEY INNOCENT 724 00:27:45,012 --> 00:27:45,246 VICTIMS? 725 00:27:45,246 --> 00:27:47,014 I THINK NOT. 726 00:27:47,014 --> 00:27:49,117 JUST AS SCIENTISTS, CLINICIAN, 727 00:27:49,117 --> 00:27:50,084 PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY, HEALTH 728 00:27:50,084 --> 00:27:53,388 SYSTEM SEE HEALTH CARE AS A 729 00:27:53,388 --> 00:27:58,326 COMMODITY, SO DO MANY PATIENTS. 730 00:27:58,326 --> 00:28:00,361 THEY WANT THEIR SHARE. 731 00:28:00,361 --> 00:28:02,864 18 TO 19% OF GDP, WHO WANTS TO 732 00:28:02,864 --> 00:28:04,966 WORK 7 1/2 HOURS A WEEK TO PAY 733 00:28:04,966 --> 00:28:06,401 FOR MEDICAL CARE BUT THEY WANT 734 00:28:06,401 --> 00:28:10,438 BLOOD TEST, SCAN, BED IN ICU AND 735 00:28:10,438 --> 00:28:12,640 MANY TREAT LIFE ITSELF AS A KIND 736 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:14,609 OF COMMODITY WANTING MORE DAYS 737 00:28:14,609 --> 00:28:17,145 AND WEEKS AND MONTHS OF LIFE, 738 00:28:17,145 --> 00:28:18,646 WHATEVER THE COST OR CONSEQUENCE 739 00:28:18,646 --> 00:28:19,447 TO OTHERS. 740 00:28:19,447 --> 00:28:21,616 THERE'S NO MORE THOUGHT OF THE 741 00:28:21,616 --> 00:28:22,717 COMMON GOOD AMONG MUCH OF THE 742 00:28:22,717 --> 00:28:24,252 PUBLIC THAN AMONG THOSE WORKING 743 00:28:24,252 --> 00:28:25,987 IN THE HEALTH SECTOR. 744 00:28:25,987 --> 00:28:26,988 WHY WOULD THAT BE? 745 00:28:26,988 --> 00:28:30,258 WELL IN PART IT REFLECTS A WORLD 746 00:28:30,258 --> 00:28:38,666 IN WHICH ALMOST EVERYTHING IS 747 00:28:38,666 --> 00:28:39,767 COMMODIFIED, SOME PEOPLE FEEL 748 00:28:39,767 --> 00:28:41,536 ENTITLED TO GET WHATEVER THEY 749 00:28:41,536 --> 00:28:44,839 WANT, AND MANY WHO ARE NOT 750 00:28:44,839 --> 00:28:46,240 WELL-CONNECTED TO OTHERS, 751 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:47,108 REPLETE WITH LONELINESS, BEATEN 752 00:28:47,108 --> 00:28:50,411 DOWN BY THE WORLD, THEY COME TO 753 00:28:50,411 --> 00:28:52,814 HEALTH CARE LOOKING FOR COMFORT, 754 00:28:52,814 --> 00:28:53,915 COMPANIONSHIP, A HEART OPEN TO 755 00:28:53,915 --> 00:28:56,517 THEM IN THE WAY THE LARGER WORLD 756 00:28:56,517 --> 00:28:57,752 IS NOT. 757 00:28:57,752 --> 00:28:59,620 UNLIKE THOSE DEMANDING CARE OUT 758 00:28:59,620 --> 00:29:02,323 OF ENTITLEMENT, WHO GET WHAT 759 00:29:02,323 --> 00:29:04,625 THEY WANT, THESE INDIVIDUALS 760 00:29:04,625 --> 00:29:05,426 ENCOUNTER PROFESSIONALS NOT 761 00:29:05,426 --> 00:29:07,061 EQUIPPED TO GIVE THEM WHAT THEY 762 00:29:07,061 --> 00:29:07,695 NEED. 763 00:29:07,695 --> 00:29:08,696 BELIEFS AND ATTITUDES MAY BE 764 00:29:08,696 --> 00:29:09,831 SHAPED BY A MEDICAL PROFESSION 765 00:29:09,831 --> 00:29:13,835 THAT DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO SET 766 00:29:13,835 --> 00:29:15,703 LIMITS, SCIENTIFIC ESTABLISHMENT 767 00:29:15,703 --> 00:29:19,740 THAT HOLDS UP CONQUEST, LACK OF 768 00:29:19,740 --> 00:29:21,509 CLARITY ABOUT WHAT LIMITS 769 00:29:21,509 --> 00:29:23,377 REASONABLE AND DOGMA FROM SOME 770 00:29:23,377 --> 00:29:24,345 RELIGIOUS LEADERS ABOUT WHEN 771 00:29:24,345 --> 00:29:27,081 LIFE BEGINS AND HOW IT SHOULD 772 00:29:27,081 --> 00:29:27,415 END. 773 00:29:27,415 --> 00:29:29,817 I COMMEND TO YOU THE WONDERFUL 774 00:29:29,817 --> 00:29:31,252 BOOK BY ROBERT BELLA AND 775 00:29:31,252 --> 00:29:34,422 COLLEAGUES, HABITS OF THE HEART, 776 00:29:34,422 --> 00:29:36,624 WHICH PROVIDES INSIGHTS. 777 00:29:36,624 --> 00:29:39,460 THEY WRITE IN PART, AMERICAN 778 00:29:39,460 --> 00:29:41,095 INDIVIDUALISM HAS BECOME 779 00:29:41,095 --> 00:29:43,397 AUTONOMY DISASSOCIATED FROM 780 00:29:43,397 --> 00:29:44,832 MEANINGFUL SOCIETAL INTEGRATION, 781 00:29:44,832 --> 00:29:46,033 THERE'S BEEN A DESTRUCTION OF 782 00:29:46,033 --> 00:29:47,568 SUBTLE TIES THAT BIND PEOPLE 783 00:29:47,568 --> 00:29:50,104 LEAVING THEM FRIGHTENED AND 784 00:29:50,104 --> 00:29:50,404 ALONE. 785 00:29:50,404 --> 00:29:53,040 MANY ABANDON ANY NOTION OF 786 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:54,008 FINDING MEANING IN RELATION TO 787 00:29:54,008 --> 00:29:57,311 SOCIETY AND THE IDEA OF THE 788 00:29:57,311 --> 00:29:57,745 COMMON GOOD. 789 00:29:57,745 --> 00:29:59,614 EDUCATION BECOMES AN INSTRUMENT 790 00:29:59,614 --> 00:30:01,582 FROM INDIVIDUAL CAREERISM AND 791 00:30:01,582 --> 00:30:06,554 THERE'S A FRACTURED IMBALANCE 792 00:30:06,554 --> 00:30:08,389 BETWEEN INDIVIDUALISM AND 793 00:30:08,389 --> 00:30:08,923 COMMUNITYISM. 794 00:30:08,923 --> 00:30:12,426 UNDERLYING ACTIONS ARE VALUES 795 00:30:12,426 --> 00:30:16,264 AND CONSCIOUSNESS OF SOCIETY, 796 00:30:16,264 --> 00:30:18,966 LACK OF COMMUNAL CONCERNS, 797 00:30:18,966 --> 00:30:21,168 MISTRUST, GREED IS GOOD, POVERTY 798 00:30:21,168 --> 00:30:22,470 IS WEAKNESS, DECLINE OF RELIGION 799 00:30:22,470 --> 00:30:25,239 IS A SOURCE OF SUPPORT, FAILURE 800 00:30:25,239 --> 00:30:27,875 OF PUBLIC DISCOURSE TO ADDRESS 801 00:30:27,875 --> 00:30:29,176 THESE ISSUES, HEALTH CARE 802 00:30:29,176 --> 00:30:31,045 MANIFESTS IN ECONOMIC AND 803 00:30:31,045 --> 00:30:33,147 POLITICAL BEHAVIOR OF ACTORS AND 804 00:30:33,147 --> 00:30:41,222 IN THEIR INNER LIVES. 805 00:30:41,222 --> 00:30:44,625 HEALTH CARE IS COMMODIFIED. 806 00:30:44,625 --> 00:30:46,360 SOME SEEK GREATER MARKET SHARE, 807 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:48,996 STILL OTHERS RUN THE TILL AND 808 00:30:48,996 --> 00:30:51,399 NEVER SAY KNOW TO PATIENTS AND 809 00:30:51,399 --> 00:30:55,202 FAMILY MEMBERS. 810 00:30:55,202 --> 00:31:03,311 SOME INTERESTED IN INVENTIONS. 811 00:31:03,311 --> 00:31:06,147 AL OF THESE GROUPS ARE PUSHING 812 00:31:06,147 --> 00:31:07,682 FOR HEALTH SYSTEM DO MORE, SPEND 813 00:31:07,682 --> 00:31:08,249 MORE. 814 00:31:08,249 --> 00:31:11,953 ON THE OTHER HAND, INSURERS, THE 815 00:31:11,953 --> 00:31:13,054 GOVERNMENT, LAWYERS, EACH WITH 816 00:31:13,054 --> 00:31:15,056 THEIR OWN REASONS TO LIMIT CARE 817 00:31:15,056 --> 00:31:18,092 AND COST, COVERAGE IN A WAY NOT 818 00:31:18,092 --> 00:31:27,702 NECESSARILY CONSISTENT WITH 819 00:31:27,702 --> 00:31:28,936 OPTIMAL HEALTH. 820 00:31:28,936 --> 00:31:35,309 (INDISCERNIBLE) 821 00:31:35,309 --> 00:31:37,044 WHEN CARE IS COMMODIFIED THERE'S 822 00:31:37,044 --> 00:31:42,283 DISINCENTIVE TO KNOW THEM, TO DO 823 00:31:42,283 --> 00:31:46,554 MORE PROCEDURES, GREATER 824 00:31:46,554 --> 00:31:47,788 CO-PAYS, EXACERBATING 825 00:31:47,788 --> 00:31:49,457 DISPARITIES, CONSUMPTION OF 826 00:31:49,457 --> 00:31:57,298 RESOURCES, LIMITING ACCESS TO 827 00:31:57,298 --> 00:31:59,567 NEEDED CARE, AS WELL AS 828 00:31:59,567 --> 00:32:02,737 DIVERSION OF RESOURCES FROM 829 00:32:02,737 --> 00:32:04,739 SOCIAL SERVICES AND EDUCATION 830 00:32:04,739 --> 00:32:07,475 AND INFRASTRUCTURE. 831 00:32:07,475 --> 00:32:13,280 CAN HEALTH CARE EVEN BE 832 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,449 OPTIMIZED IN A COMMODIFIED 833 00:32:15,449 --> 00:32:15,983 MARKETPLACE? 834 00:32:15,983 --> 00:32:18,085 PELLEGRINO OFFERS PUTTING 835 00:32:18,085 --> 00:32:19,487 PHYSICIANS AT FINANCIAL RISK CAN 836 00:32:19,487 --> 00:32:23,424 (INDISCERNIBLE) WHICH HAS GRAVE 837 00:32:23,424 --> 00:32:24,625 CONSEQUENCES IN MEDICINE AND 838 00:32:24,625 --> 00:32:26,594 ONLY THE GOVERNMENT WILL PLACE 839 00:32:26,594 --> 00:32:28,663 PUBLIC GOOD ABOVE PRIVATE 840 00:32:28,663 --> 00:32:29,363 INTEREST. 841 00:32:29,363 --> 00:32:29,964 ECONOMIST KENNETH ARROW WROTE 842 00:32:29,964 --> 00:32:33,300 HEALTH CARE CAN'T BE A PERFECTLY 843 00:32:33,300 --> 00:32:34,268 FUNCTIONING MARKET BECAUSE OF 844 00:32:34,268 --> 00:32:36,137 UNCERTAINTY ABOUT QUALITY OF 845 00:32:36,137 --> 00:32:37,238 PRODUCTS THAT PATIENTS PURCHASE, 846 00:32:37,238 --> 00:32:39,006 INJURY TO SOME CAUSED BY 847 00:32:39,006 --> 00:32:40,741 UNCONSTRAINED MARKET MAY NOT BE 848 00:32:40,741 --> 00:32:48,315 OFFSET BY BENEFIT TO OTHERS. 849 00:32:48,315 --> 00:32:51,052 WE KNOW MARKET-BASED U.S. SYSTEM 850 00:32:51,052 --> 00:32:54,522 IS PERHAPS THE LEAST EFFICIENT 851 00:32:54,522 --> 00:33:02,163 WHILE PRODUCING POORER OUTCOMES. 852 00:33:02,163 --> 00:33:08,235 HOWEVER, CONSCIOUSNESS OF 853 00:33:08,235 --> 00:33:10,538 ACTORS IS NO LESS POTENT. 854 00:33:10,538 --> 00:33:12,506 CLINICIANS DOING THINGS CONCRETE 855 00:33:12,506 --> 00:33:14,241 AND SHORT TERM HAVE TROUBLE 856 00:33:14,241 --> 00:33:16,210 RELATING TO PATIENTS, SAYING NO, 857 00:33:16,210 --> 00:33:18,646 AREN'T GOING TO LIMIT CARE AND 858 00:33:18,646 --> 00:33:21,348 CHANGE PRIORITY. 859 00:33:21,348 --> 00:33:24,085 MEDICAL SCHOOLS CAN'T TRAIN MORE 860 00:33:24,085 --> 00:33:25,086 SUBSPECIALISTS, THEY DON'T KNOW 861 00:33:25,086 --> 00:33:33,961 HOW TO BREAK WITH PROPENSITY FOR 862 00:33:33,961 --> 00:33:36,597 MERIT RATHER THAN CAPACITY TO 863 00:33:36,597 --> 00:33:40,401 CARE, LACKING INTEREST TO 864 00:33:40,401 --> 00:33:42,036 PRODUCE SOCIETAL OBLIGATIONS, 865 00:33:42,036 --> 00:33:45,339 SCIENTISTS LIKE IT FIGURE THINGS 866 00:33:45,339 --> 00:33:47,208 OUT, OBLIVIOUS TO PROBLEMS. 867 00:33:47,208 --> 00:33:48,609 POLITICIANS HAVE MOONSHOTS AND 868 00:33:48,609 --> 00:33:52,346 PROGRAMS BUT DON'T WANT TO 869 00:33:52,346 --> 00:33:53,781 OFFEND THOSE THAT MIGHT DRIVE 870 00:33:53,781 --> 00:33:54,749 THEM FROM OFFICE. 871 00:33:54,749 --> 00:33:57,818 PATIENTS RUN DOWN BY LIFE WITH 872 00:33:57,818 --> 00:33:59,587 PAIN LITERAL AND FIGURATIVE, 873 00:33:59,587 --> 00:34:00,755 DON'T TRUST MEDICAL AUTHORITIES 874 00:34:00,755 --> 00:34:04,258 FROM WHOM THEY ARE DISTANT, 875 00:34:04,258 --> 00:34:05,793 CONFUSED BY MISINFORMATION ABOUT 876 00:34:05,793 --> 00:34:07,928 WHAT MEDICAL SCIENCE HAS TO 877 00:34:07,928 --> 00:34:12,066 OFFER, LOOK TO MEDICINE FOR THE 878 00:34:12,066 --> 00:34:14,468 HEALING TOUCH. 879 00:34:14,468 --> 00:34:17,004 DISCOURSE IS DISAPPOINTING, 880 00:34:17,004 --> 00:34:19,740 DOCTORS SELLING PROCEDURES, 881 00:34:19,740 --> 00:34:21,375 PROVIDERS ADVERTISING MIRACLES, 882 00:34:21,375 --> 00:34:23,244 PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES GUARDING 883 00:34:23,244 --> 00:34:24,545 THEIR INTERESTS, MEDICAL 884 00:34:24,545 --> 00:34:27,081 EDUCATORS PROMULGATING VALUES OF 885 00:34:27,081 --> 00:34:29,784 THE STATUS QUO, SCIENTISTS AND 886 00:34:29,784 --> 00:34:32,753 NIH MAKING EXTRAVAGANT PROMISES, 887 00:34:32,753 --> 00:34:35,389 CORPORATIONS INDUCE DEMAND AND 888 00:34:35,389 --> 00:34:37,591 BLOCK PROGRESS, POLITICIANS 889 00:34:37,591 --> 00:34:39,560 PRIORITIZE MOONSHOTS, MEDIA 890 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,328 SENSE TAIGSALLIZE REPORTS OF 891 00:34:41,328 --> 00:34:42,763 LATEST ADVANCES, NOT REPORTING 892 00:34:42,763 --> 00:34:44,298 VERY OFTEN ON SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS 893 00:34:44,298 --> 00:34:45,499 IN CARE. 894 00:34:45,499 --> 00:34:47,802 HEALTH POLICY RESEARCHERS DON'T 895 00:34:47,802 --> 00:34:50,938 THREATEN THE STATUS QUO, PUBLIC 896 00:34:50,938 --> 00:34:53,040 INTELLECTUALS WHO MIGHT TRY TO 897 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:58,379 BALANCE DISCOURSE ARE DROWNED 898 00:34:58,379 --> 00:34:58,846 OUT. 899 00:34:58,846 --> 00:35:00,581 ACOURTING TO THEORY OF 900 00:35:00,581 --> 00:35:02,683 COMMUNICATEIVE ACTION PROGRESS 901 00:35:02,683 --> 00:35:04,418 IN SOCIETY DEPENDS ON COMMON 902 00:35:04,418 --> 00:35:06,253 UNDERSTANDING ACROSS THOSE WHO 903 00:35:06,253 --> 00:35:08,789 CONTROL CAPITAL, THOSE WHO MAKE 904 00:35:08,789 --> 00:35:09,890 POLICY, INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS 905 00:35:09,890 --> 00:35:11,725 WHO SEEK TO HAVE INFLUENCE, AND 906 00:35:11,725 --> 00:35:14,461 VALUES AND BELIEFS THAT MEMBERS 907 00:35:14,461 --> 00:35:17,331 OF SOCIETY, ARGUES IN GENERAL 908 00:35:17,331 --> 00:35:18,299 CAPITALISTS AND POLICYMAKERS 909 00:35:18,299 --> 00:35:20,401 COMMUNICATE VERY WELL WITH 910 00:35:20,401 --> 00:35:22,269 ELEMENTS SHUT OUT IN HEALTH 911 00:35:22,269 --> 00:35:27,641 CARE, CAPITALISTS HAVE THE 912 00:35:27,641 --> 00:35:30,044 POWER, AND ABSENT COMMON 913 00:35:30,044 --> 00:35:31,445 UNDERSTANDING ADVERSARIAL 914 00:35:31,445 --> 00:35:32,546 SITUATIONS LIKE MALPRACTICE 915 00:35:32,546 --> 00:35:35,182 SUITS, INSURANCE DENIALS, 916 00:35:35,182 --> 00:35:36,684 COLLECTION AGENCIES, MISDIRECTED 917 00:35:36,684 --> 00:35:39,987 PRIORITIES IN RESEARCH, CLINICAL 918 00:35:39,987 --> 00:35:41,288 PROGRAMS, MEDICAL EDUCATION, 919 00:35:41,288 --> 00:35:46,227 POOR COMMUNICATION AND CLINICAL 920 00:35:46,227 --> 00:35:48,929 ENCOUNTERS ALL ENSUE. 921 00:35:48,929 --> 00:35:51,165 SO, WHAT CAN WE DO? 922 00:35:51,165 --> 00:35:53,000 POLICY CHANGE CAN'T BE SUSTAINED 923 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:57,504 WHEN ALMOST EVERY ACTOR WANTS IT 924 00:35:57,504 --> 00:35:59,473 TO FAIL. 925 00:35:59,473 --> 00:36:00,674 PHILOSOPHERS AND OTHERS, 926 00:36:00,674 --> 00:36:06,814 SOCIOLOGISTS WHO THOUGHT ABOUT 927 00:36:06,814 --> 00:36:10,217 THIS, LUKACS, KORSCH, CONTEND 928 00:36:10,217 --> 00:36:14,588 PURSUING SOCIETAL CHANGE JUST BY 929 00:36:14,588 --> 00:36:15,222 POLICY WITHOUT ADDRESSING 930 00:36:15,222 --> 00:36:16,991 CONSCIOUSNESS WILL LEAD TO 931 00:36:16,991 --> 00:36:18,292 FAILURE IN THE END. 932 00:36:18,292 --> 00:36:20,828 IN HEALTH CARE THERE ARE SO MANY 933 00:36:20,828 --> 00:36:24,999 MATERIAL GOODS AT STAKE AND 934 00:36:24,999 --> 00:36:26,533 NON-MATERIAL FACTORS THAT ALL 935 00:36:26,533 --> 00:36:29,270 GROUPS OF ACTORS ARE INCLINED TO 936 00:36:29,270 --> 00:36:31,005 BEAR THOSE ILLS WE HAVE THAN FLY 937 00:36:31,005 --> 00:36:37,912 TO OTHERS THAT WE KNOW NOT OF. 938 00:36:37,912 --> 00:36:40,114 SO, THE CHARACTERS IN THE 939 00:36:40,114 --> 00:36:42,249 PAINTING OF THE ASSASSINATION OF 940 00:36:42,249 --> 00:36:43,817 CAESAR COULD BE ALL THE ACTORS 941 00:36:43,817 --> 00:36:47,221 IN HEALTH CARE WHO SEEK TO KILL 942 00:36:47,221 --> 00:36:47,454 REFORM. 943 00:36:47,454 --> 00:36:53,794 A MODEST INTERVENTION SUCH AS 944 00:36:53,794 --> 00:36:54,561 INCENTIVIZING CASSPISA AND 945 00:36:54,561 --> 00:36:55,629 BRUTUS WOULDN'T HAVE CHANGED THE 946 00:36:55,629 --> 00:36:58,065 OUTCOME ON THE IDES OF MARCH NOR 947 00:36:58,065 --> 00:37:01,769 WILL THAT BE ENOUGH IN HEALTH 948 00:37:01,769 --> 00:37:02,036 CARE. 949 00:37:02,036 --> 00:37:03,103 MEANINGFUL CHANGE, IS IT 950 00:37:03,103 --> 00:37:03,370 POSSIBLE? 951 00:37:03,370 --> 00:37:08,876 THERE ARE SO MANY ACTORS CAUGHT 952 00:37:08,876 --> 00:37:18,085 IN THIS MAELSTROM OF 953 00:37:18,085 --> 00:37:20,721 COMMODIFICATION OF CARE. 954 00:37:20,721 --> 00:37:21,922 IT'S A DAUNTING CAST, WE CAN'T 955 00:37:21,922 --> 00:37:22,456 IGNORE CHALLENGES. 956 00:37:22,456 --> 00:37:29,129 WE NEED TO TAKE THEM ON. 957 00:37:29,129 --> 00:37:31,131 WE NEED TO THINK HOW MANY 958 00:37:31,131 --> 00:37:32,766 PROBLEMS CAN BE TAKEN ON IN 959 00:37:32,766 --> 00:37:36,270 THEIR INSTITUTIONS AND IN THEIR 960 00:37:36,270 --> 00:37:37,137 OWN BEHAVIOR. 961 00:37:37,137 --> 00:37:41,642 GOVERNMENT CAN'T COUNT ON 962 00:37:41,642 --> 00:37:46,914 MINIMALIST INCENTIVES TO CLEAR 963 00:37:46,914 --> 00:37:47,982 THE WRECKAGE, SCIENTISTS CAN'T 964 00:37:47,982 --> 00:37:49,550 BURY HEADS IN SCIENCE AND TRIALS 965 00:37:49,550 --> 00:37:50,684 IF THEY ARE COMMITTED TO 966 00:37:50,684 --> 00:37:52,486 IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF THE 967 00:37:52,486 --> 00:37:52,720 PUBLIC. 968 00:37:52,720 --> 00:37:55,556 THEY NEED TO FUND STUDIES NEEDED 969 00:37:55,556 --> 00:37:57,324 TO DEVELOP AND EVALUATE 970 00:37:57,324 --> 00:38:01,895 INTERVENTIONS THAT ADDRESS THE 971 00:38:01,895 --> 00:38:02,997 MANY PROBLEMS AND PERHAPS 972 00:38:02,997 --> 00:38:06,467 POTENTIAL STEPS THAT I'VE 973 00:38:06,467 --> 00:38:07,401 SUGGESTED TODAY. 974 00:38:07,401 --> 00:38:09,670 CHANGING POLICY WON'T BE ENOUGH. 975 00:38:09,670 --> 00:38:12,740 WE NEED TO TRANSFORM 976 00:38:12,740 --> 00:38:14,608 CONTEMPORANEOUSLY POLICY 977 00:38:14,608 --> 00:38:16,276 CONSCIOUSNESS AND COMMUNICATION, 978 00:38:16,276 --> 00:38:17,344 POWER RELATIONSHIPS, COMBINATION 979 00:38:17,344 --> 00:38:22,683 THERAPY IS NEEDED, OTHERWISE 980 00:38:22,683 --> 00:38:24,118 INNOVATIONS WHICH REPRESENT REAL 981 00:38:24,118 --> 00:38:25,786 PROGRESS ARE LIKE TREATING 982 00:38:25,786 --> 00:38:28,188 LYMPHOMA OR HIV WITH ONE DRUG, 983 00:38:28,188 --> 00:38:29,623 WILL MAKE SOME DIFFERENCE BUT 984 00:38:29,623 --> 00:38:33,427 WILL BE UNDONE BY THE UNDERLYING 985 00:38:33,427 --> 00:38:33,927 MALADY. 986 00:38:33,927 --> 00:38:35,295 IN ADDITION TO WHAT WE'VE 987 00:38:35,295 --> 00:38:37,164 DISCUSSED OTHER CHANGES ARE 988 00:38:37,164 --> 00:38:37,765 ESSENTIAL. 989 00:38:37,765 --> 00:38:39,033 EVERYONE NEEDS THE SAME 990 00:38:39,033 --> 00:38:41,335 INSURANCE, SEPARATE IS NEVER 991 00:38:41,335 --> 00:38:42,169 EQUAL. 992 00:38:42,169 --> 00:38:46,040 NEW TREATMENT SHOULD BE APPROVED 993 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:47,007 AFTER ONLY CAREFUL ASSESSMENT 994 00:38:47,007 --> 00:38:48,108 AND COST. 995 00:38:48,108 --> 00:38:49,843 THE NATIONAL ACADEMY ALSO SHOULD 996 00:38:49,843 --> 00:38:53,480 CONVENE A PANEL TO PROPOSE A 997 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:54,481 RADICALLY REVISED BUDGET 998 00:38:54,481 --> 00:38:57,184 PRIORITY FOR NIH THAT GIVES FAR 999 00:38:57,184 --> 00:38:59,920 MORE EMPHASIS TO POPULATION 1000 00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:00,487 HEALTH. 1001 00:39:00,487 --> 00:39:05,059 IF WE CAN'T DISBAND THE FEE FOR 1002 00:39:05,059 --> 00:39:07,561 SERVICE SYSTEM, WE SHOULD 1003 00:39:07,561 --> 00:39:09,997 DISBAND THE RUC, WHICH POISONS 1004 00:39:09,997 --> 00:39:13,367 IT AND RADICALLY REVISE THE 1005 00:39:13,367 --> 00:39:15,903 MEDICARE FEE SCHEDULE. 1006 00:39:15,903 --> 00:39:17,104 IN TERMS OF COMMUNICATION, FIND 1007 00:39:17,104 --> 00:39:19,606 A WAY TO LIMIT HEALTH SYSTEM 1008 00:39:19,606 --> 00:39:21,041 ADVERTISING TO PROMOTION OF 1009 00:39:21,041 --> 00:39:25,012 PUBLIC HEALTH, NOT THEIR PRODUCT 1010 00:39:25,012 --> 00:39:25,512 LINES. 1011 00:39:25,512 --> 00:39:28,515 STOP OVERSELLING IMPLICATIONS. 1012 00:39:28,515 --> 00:39:29,583 STOP SELLING PATIENTS WITH 1013 00:39:29,583 --> 00:39:31,218 THINGS THEY DON'T NEED. 1014 00:39:31,218 --> 00:39:33,320 PROVIDE GREATER TRANSPARENCY 1015 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,155 ABOUT ALL MEDICAL DEVICES 1016 00:39:35,155 --> 00:39:36,824 INCLUDING AN INDIVIDUAL 1017 00:39:36,824 --> 00:39:37,891 DOCTOR/PATIENT ENCOUNTER AND 1018 00:39:37,891 --> 00:39:41,295 ESTABLISH MEDIA STANDARDS FOR 1019 00:39:41,295 --> 00:39:42,296 MORE BALANCED REPORTING ON 1020 00:39:42,296 --> 00:39:45,132 IMPLICATIONS OF NEW RESEARCH. 1021 00:39:45,132 --> 00:39:46,767 FINALLY, FOR PATIENTS AND PUBLIC 1022 00:39:46,767 --> 00:39:49,069 PROVIDE THE SOCIAL SERVICES AND 1023 00:39:49,069 --> 00:39:50,704 FINANCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL 1024 00:39:50,704 --> 00:39:51,338 RESOURCES NEEDED TO ADDRESS 1025 00:39:51,338 --> 00:39:54,408 PROBLEMS BEST DEALT WITH IN 1026 00:39:54,408 --> 00:39:55,943 THOSE CONTEXTS, EDUCATE THE 1027 00:39:55,943 --> 00:39:58,879 PUBLIC AND PATIENTS ABOUT THE 1028 00:39:58,879 --> 00:40:00,948 C█OMMON GOOD, FAIR DISTRIBUTION 1029 00:40:00,948 --> 00:40:02,182 OF LIMITED MEDICAL RESOURCES, 1030 00:40:02,182 --> 00:40:03,650 LIMITS ON WHAT MEDICINE CAN 1031 00:40:03,650 --> 00:40:05,486 ACCOMPLISH, TRAIN CLINICIAN WHO 1032 00:40:05,486 --> 00:40:07,654 IS CAN RELATE TO DIVERSE 1033 00:40:07,654 --> 00:40:08,722 COMMUNITIES AND INCORPORATE 1034 00:40:08,722 --> 00:40:10,591 COMMUNITIES INTO ALL LEVELS OF 1035 00:40:10,591 --> 00:40:13,026 DECISION MAKING AND RESEARCH 1036 00:40:13,026 --> 00:40:15,329 EDUCATION AND CLINICAL CARE. 1037 00:40:15,329 --> 00:40:16,930 SO, SOME WOULD SAY YOU CAN'T 1038 00:40:16,930 --> 00:40:19,032 SOLVE THIS IN HEALTH CARE ALONE. 1039 00:40:19,032 --> 00:40:20,234 I AGREE. 1040 00:40:20,234 --> 00:40:22,536 ACTORS IN HEALTH CARE WON'T 1041 00:40:22,536 --> 00:40:28,242 UNILATERALLY DISARM IN TERMS OF 1042 00:40:28,242 --> 00:40:36,416 COMMON -- COMMON FUNDED. 1043 00:40:36,416 --> 00:40:42,122 WE MUST ACT IN PROFESSIONAL 1044 00:40:42,122 --> 00:40:44,391 CAPACITIES AS CITIZENS TO 1045 00:40:44,391 --> 00:40:46,393 PROMOTE CHANGES. 1046 00:40:46,393 --> 00:40:48,228 SILENCE IS ASSENT, AS WAS 1047 00:40:48,228 --> 00:40:48,662 WRITTEN. 1048 00:40:48,662 --> 00:40:52,599 SO, WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN IS THAT 1049 00:40:52,599 --> 00:40:54,234 EVERY ORGANIZATION INCLUDING 1050 00:40:54,234 --> 00:40:54,935 INVOLVED IN MEDICAL EDUCATION 1051 00:40:54,935 --> 00:40:56,336 RESEARCH AND PRACTICE NEEDS TO 1052 00:40:56,336 --> 00:40:58,205 ADDRESS THESE PROBLEMS WITH 1053 00:40:58,205 --> 00:41:00,507 UTMOST URGENCY IN THEIR OWN 1054 00:41:00,507 --> 00:41:03,777 ACTIVITIES IN BROADER SOCIETY, 1055 00:41:03,777 --> 00:41:04,878 CHANGE CONSCIOUSNESS, TRANSFORM 1056 00:41:04,878 --> 00:41:05,746 DISCOURSE, PURSUE A CONSENSUS 1057 00:41:05,746 --> 00:41:08,081 WE'RE IN THE SAME BOAT, AND 1058 00:41:08,081 --> 00:41:10,884 PRODUCE THE EVIDENCE NEEDED TO 1059 00:41:10,884 --> 00:41:12,986 OPTIMIZE POPULATION HEALTH. 1060 00:41:12,986 --> 00:41:14,955 WE SURELY SHOULDN'T GIVE UP WITH 1061 00:41:14,955 --> 00:41:19,459 EACH FAILED EFFORT AT REFORM. 1062 00:41:19,459 --> 00:41:20,527 TWO MILLENNIAL AGO IT WAS 1063 00:41:20,527 --> 00:41:21,728 WRITTEN IT'S NOT YOUR DUTY TO 1064 00:41:21,728 --> 00:41:23,263 FINISH THE WORK BUT NEITHER ARE 1065 00:41:23,263 --> 00:41:26,466 YOU AT LIBERTY TO NEGLECT IT. 1066 00:41:26,466 --> 00:41:28,635 WE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT ALL THESE 1067 00:41:28,635 --> 00:41:29,369 BALLOONS TODAY. 1068 00:41:29,369 --> 00:41:32,239 BUT THERE IS A LOT WE NEED TO 1069 00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:32,673 DO. 1070 00:41:32,673 --> 00:41:35,409 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 1071 00:41:35,409 --> 00:41:41,448 1072 00:41:41,448 --> 00:41:43,417 1073 00:41:43,417 --> 00:41:47,354 >> THANK YOU, MARTIN. 1074 00:41:47,354 --> 00:41:50,624 I'M GOING TO REACT AND PASS TO 1075 00:41:50,624 --> 00:41:55,362 EITHER KATRINA OR MONICA TO HAVE 1076 00:41:55,362 --> 00:41:55,862 COMMENTS. 1077 00:41:55,862 --> 00:41:59,299 SO, YOU PRESENT A RATHER I WOULD 1078 00:41:59,299 --> 00:42:02,069 SAY PESSIMISTIC VIEW OF WHERE WE 1079 00:42:02,069 --> 00:42:04,037 ARE, MAYBE THAT'S NOT YOUR 1080 00:42:04,037 --> 00:42:05,906 INTENT BUT THAT'S CERTAINLY THE 1081 00:42:05,906 --> 00:42:07,407 MESSAGE I HEAR. 1082 00:42:07,407 --> 00:42:10,477 YOU KNOW, A LOT OF WHAT YOU 1083 00:42:10,477 --> 00:42:13,013 COMMENTED ON, YOU KNOW, 1084 00:42:13,013 --> 00:42:14,648 RESONATES WITH MY OWN VIEWS, AS 1085 00:42:14,648 --> 00:42:16,283 TO WHERE WE ARE. 1086 00:42:16,283 --> 00:42:18,452 BUT IT MAKES IT ALMOST SO 1087 00:42:18,452 --> 00:42:19,920 DAUNTING THAT YOU SAY, WELL, 1088 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:21,221 WHERE DO WE START? 1089 00:42:21,221 --> 00:42:22,856 WHAT DO WE DO? 1090 00:42:22,856 --> 00:42:25,259 I MEAN, ONE OPTION IS TO, YOU 1091 00:42:25,259 --> 00:42:27,094 KNOW, QUOTE/UNQUOTE BLOW 1092 00:42:27,094 --> 00:42:28,528 EVERYTHING UP AND START OVER BUT 1093 00:42:28,528 --> 00:42:31,164 THAT WE KNOW IS NOT VERY 1094 00:42:31,164 --> 00:42:31,665 PRACTICAL. 1095 00:42:31,665 --> 00:42:34,668 SO, YOU KNOW, WHERE DO WE GET 1096 00:42:34,668 --> 00:42:36,103 STARTED WITH INCREMENTAL CHANGE? 1097 00:42:36,103 --> 00:42:37,838 >> WELL, YOU KNOW, I THINK ALL 1098 00:42:37,838 --> 00:42:40,607 OF THESE THINGS NEED TO HAPPEN. 1099 00:42:40,607 --> 00:42:42,242 AND THERE'S NO ONE ENTITY OR 1100 00:42:42,242 --> 00:42:43,310 INDIVIDUAL WHO CAN WORK ON ALL 1101 00:42:43,310 --> 00:42:45,946 OF THEM. 1102 00:42:45,946 --> 00:42:48,782 BUT WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE THEM 1103 00:42:48,782 --> 00:42:49,883 ALL. 1104 00:42:49,883 --> 00:42:56,023 MY VERY FIRST SLIDE, I QUOTED 1105 00:42:56,023 --> 00:42:57,357 MAX WHO SAID THAT THE 1106 00:42:57,357 --> 00:42:59,426 DENUNCIATION OF EVERYTHING THAT 1107 00:42:59,426 --> 00:43:02,262 MUTILATES MANKIND AND IMPEDES 1108 00:43:02,262 --> 00:43:03,130 ITS PRE-DEVELOPMENT RESTS ON 1109 00:43:03,130 --> 00:43:04,464 CONFIDENCE IN MAN. 1110 00:43:04,464 --> 00:43:07,634 I WOULD HOLD THAT LAYING ALL OF 1111 00:43:07,634 --> 00:43:11,038 THIS OUT, ALTHOUGH, YES, IT'S A 1112 00:43:11,038 --> 00:43:14,541 LOT OF STUFF, IS AN OPTIMISTIC 1113 00:43:14,541 --> 00:43:15,842 VIEW BECAUSE WHY WOULD WE DO 1114 00:43:15,842 --> 00:43:23,817 THAT IF WE DIDN'T THINK WE COULD 1115 00:43:23,817 --> 00:43:24,418 SOLVE PROBLEMS? 1116 00:43:24,418 --> 00:43:27,888 SO, WHERE WOULD WE START? 1117 00:43:27,888 --> 00:43:29,056 I THINK INSURING EVERYONE AND 1118 00:43:29,056 --> 00:43:31,792 GIVING THE SAME INSURANCE IS ONE 1119 00:43:31,792 --> 00:43:32,059 ITEM. 1120 00:43:32,059 --> 00:43:33,560 CHANGING MEDICAL EDUCATION BOTH 1121 00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:35,429 BY CHANGING WHOM WE SELECT INTO 1122 00:43:35,429 --> 00:43:38,432 MEDICAL SCHOOL AND WHAT GOES ON 1123 00:43:38,432 --> 00:43:39,666 IN MEDICAL SCHOOL WOULD BE 1124 00:43:39,666 --> 00:43:42,436 ANOTHER KEY THING TO DO. 1125 00:43:42,436 --> 00:43:44,104 AND CHANGE THE INCENTIVES AND 1126 00:43:44,104 --> 00:43:44,438 PRACTICE. 1127 00:43:44,438 --> 00:43:46,373 AS I SUGGESTED, PAYING DOCTORS 1128 00:43:46,373 --> 00:43:48,241 FOR THEIR TIME AND PAYING PEOPLE 1129 00:43:48,241 --> 00:43:50,010 ONLY A LITTLE BIT MORE IF THEY 1130 00:43:50,010 --> 00:43:52,045 HAVE TAKEN AN EXTRA YEAR OR TWO 1131 00:43:52,045 --> 00:43:52,779 OF TRAINING. 1132 00:43:52,779 --> 00:43:59,453 ALL OF WHOM WOULD BE QUITE 1133 00:43:59,453 --> 00:43:59,786 HELPFUL. 1134 00:43:59,786 --> 00:44:05,559 AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GOOD 1135 00:44:05,559 --> 00:44:07,361 STARTING TRIPLE REGIMEN. 1136 00:44:07,361 --> 00:44:08,195 >> ALL RIGHT. 1137 00:44:08,195 --> 00:44:10,063 THREE AREAS AT LEAST. 1138 00:44:10,063 --> 00:44:11,965 KATRINA, DO YOU HAVE -- 1139 00:44:11,965 --> 00:44:14,534 >> YES, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 1140 00:44:14,534 --> 00:44:17,170 THIS PRESENTATION. 1141 00:44:17,170 --> 00:44:19,139 IT'S ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC. 1142 00:44:19,139 --> 00:44:22,209 AND I THINK WE'RE SPEAKING TO AN 1143 00:44:22,209 --> 00:44:24,511 AUDIENCE OF PEOPLE AT NIH TODAY, 1144 00:44:24,511 --> 00:44:26,947 AND SO I'D REALLY BE INTERESTED 1145 00:44:26,947 --> 00:44:30,784 IN DIVING A BIT DEEPER INTO SOME 1146 00:44:30,784 --> 00:44:36,056 OF THE CHALLENGES THAT YOU THINK 1147 00:44:36,056 --> 00:44:37,124 SPECIFICALLY HOW SCIENTISTS ARE 1148 00:44:37,124 --> 00:44:37,991 CONTRIBUTING TO THESE PROBLEMS 1149 00:44:37,991 --> 00:44:40,761 AND WHAT WE CAN DO AT NIH. 1150 00:44:40,761 --> 00:44:45,899 AND YOU HAVE A CHAPTER IN YOUR 1151 00:44:45,899 --> 00:44:48,101 BOOK ABOUT SCIENTISTS AND OUR 1152 00:44:48,101 --> 00:44:49,703 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS. 1153 00:44:49,703 --> 00:44:55,041 AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU 1154 00:44:55,041 --> 00:45:00,447 MENTIONED ARE BIASES IN PEER 1155 00:45:00,447 --> 00:45:02,082 REVIEW, LOBBYING, OVERSTATEMENT 1156 00:45:02,082 --> 00:45:05,819 OF THE BENEFITS OF OUR RESEARCH 1157 00:45:05,819 --> 00:45:09,122 THAT WE OFTEN SELECT RESEARCH 1158 00:45:09,122 --> 00:45:12,392 THAT HAS MARGINAL OR INCREMENTAL 1159 00:45:12,392 --> 00:45:20,267 ADVANCES VERSUS HIGH RISK 1160 00:45:20,267 --> 00:45:20,767 ADVANCES. 1161 00:45:20,767 --> 00:45:25,439 AND REALLY WAYS THAT WE 1162 00:45:25,439 --> 00:45:25,972 PRIORITIZE BIOLOGICAL 1163 00:45:25,972 --> 00:45:29,910 REDUCTIONISM AND KINDS OF 1164 00:45:29,910 --> 00:45:32,979 RESEARCH AND HOW WE SELECT 1165 00:45:32,979 --> 00:45:35,182 RESEARCH TOPICS WERE SOME AREAS 1166 00:45:35,182 --> 00:45:37,284 WAY WE CONTRIBUTE AS RESEARCHERS 1167 00:45:37,284 --> 00:45:38,218 AND SCIENTISTS AT NIH. 1168 00:45:38,218 --> 00:45:40,887 I'D LIKE TO HEAR MORE YOUR 1169 00:45:40,887 --> 00:45:42,823 THOUGHTS ON WHAT CAN WE BE DOING 1170 00:45:42,823 --> 00:45:46,026 FROM OUR NECK OF THE WOODS. 1171 00:45:46,026 --> 00:45:48,228 >> WELL, AS I IMPLIED AT ONE 1172 00:45:48,228 --> 00:45:50,096 POINT IN MY TALK, I THINK THAT 1173 00:45:50,096 --> 00:45:52,199 THE IDEAS THAT WE HAVE ON HOW WE 1174 00:45:52,199 --> 00:45:55,101 FIX THINGS ALL NEED TO BE 1175 00:45:55,101 --> 00:45:55,368 EVALUATED. 1176 00:45:55,368 --> 00:45:59,172 AND THE NIH SHOULD BE INVESTING 1177 00:45:59,172 --> 00:46:01,975 SERIOUSLY IN -- CERTAINLY I MEAN 1178 00:46:01,975 --> 00:46:04,744 IN I THINK THE NIH ISN'T OFTEN 1179 00:46:04,744 --> 00:46:06,279 INTERESTED IN STUDYING MEDICAL 1180 00:46:06,279 --> 00:46:07,214 EDUCATION BUT MEDICAL EDUCATION 1181 00:46:07,214 --> 00:46:09,649 IS ONE OF THE POISONS IN THE 1182 00:46:09,649 --> 00:46:11,518 WATERS OF HEALTH CARE IN 1183 00:46:11,518 --> 00:46:12,052 AMERICA. 1184 00:46:12,052 --> 00:46:13,487 AND NEEDS TO BE STUDIED AND 1185 00:46:13,487 --> 00:46:16,990 ADDRESSED AND IMPROVED AND 1186 00:46:16,990 --> 00:46:17,390 CHANGED. 1187 00:46:17,390 --> 00:46:19,593 A LOT OF OTHER ISSUES THAT I'VE 1188 00:46:19,593 --> 00:46:20,360 TALKED ABOUT SIMILARLY. 1189 00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,763 BUT WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT 1190 00:46:23,763 --> 00:46:25,298 THE NIH INVESTS IN, FORMER 1191 00:46:25,298 --> 00:46:28,034 DIRECTOR OF NIH JUST WRITING 1192 00:46:28,034 --> 00:46:29,236 THIS PAST WEEKEND IN THE 1193 00:46:29,236 --> 00:46:34,541 "WASHINGTON POST" I THINK WROTE 1194 00:46:34,541 --> 00:46:36,409 ABOUT HEPATITIS C, WROTE THAT 1195 00:46:36,409 --> 00:46:38,044 THE CORRECT NUMBER OF DEATHS 1196 00:46:38,044 --> 00:46:39,446 FROM HEPATITIS C IN A YEAR IN 1197 00:46:39,446 --> 00:46:43,183 THE U.S. RIGHT NOW SHOULD BE 1198 00:46:43,183 --> 00:46:43,483 ZERO. 1199 00:46:43,483 --> 00:46:44,818 YOU KNOW, BUT THERE ISN'T A 1200 00:46:44,818 --> 00:46:49,623 SYSTEM IN PLACE TO GET US THERE 1201 00:46:49,623 --> 00:46:50,690 WITH UNDOING ONE PROJECT, YOU 1202 00:46:50,690 --> 00:46:52,692 KNOW, THERE ARE A FEW OTHER 1203 00:46:52,692 --> 00:46:53,793 PROJECTS WHERE PEOPLE ARE 1204 00:46:53,793 --> 00:46:54,761 LOOKING AT ACCESS AND 1205 00:46:54,761 --> 00:46:57,397 DISPARITIES AND WHAT DO YOU DO 1206 00:46:57,397 --> 00:46:58,865 AND SO ON IN THIS DISEASE. 1207 00:46:58,865 --> 00:47:05,805 BUT IF -- YOU KNOW, IF 16,000 1208 00:47:05,805 --> 00:47:07,474 PEOPLE WERE DYING FROM A 1209 00:47:07,474 --> 00:47:08,108 TERRORIST ATTACK, YOU KNOW, 1210 00:47:08,108 --> 00:47:09,543 THERE WOULD BE A LOT THAT WOULD 1211 00:47:09,543 --> 00:47:11,611 HAPPEN TO TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT 1212 00:47:11,611 --> 00:47:13,813 DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN. 1213 00:47:13,813 --> 00:47:16,349 BUT IN MY CAREER, MY FIRST 1214 00:47:16,349 --> 00:47:19,519 PROJECT IN MONTREAL WAS STUDY OF 1215 00:47:19,519 --> 00:47:20,420 PROBLEMS IN CONTROLLING 1216 00:47:20,420 --> 00:47:22,155 HYPERTENSION IN THE COMMUNITY. 1217 00:47:22,155 --> 00:47:25,025 THEN I SPENT A LOT OF MY CAREER 1218 00:47:25,025 --> 00:47:26,326 STUDYING HIV AND ITS CARE. 1219 00:47:26,326 --> 00:47:27,427 WE HAVE TREATMENTS THAT CAN 1220 00:47:27,427 --> 00:47:30,363 ALLOW PEOPLE TO LIVE A NORMAL 1221 00:47:30,363 --> 00:47:32,098 LIFE WITH HIV BUT THERE'S STILL 1222 00:47:32,098 --> 00:47:33,767 15,000 A PEOPLE YEAR DYING FROM 1223 00:47:33,767 --> 00:47:38,572 HIV IN THE UNITED STATES. 1224 00:47:38,572 --> 00:47:43,843 WHY ISN'T THE NIH INVESTING SOME 1225 00:47:43,843 --> 00:47:45,912 OF -- MUCH MORE OF ITS $50 1226 00:47:45,912 --> 00:47:47,414 BILLION LOOKING AT THESE 1227 00:47:47,414 --> 00:47:49,149 DISORDERS AND THESE POPULATIONS 1228 00:47:49,149 --> 00:47:51,585 AND THESE PROBLEMS, AND THEN THE 1229 00:47:51,585 --> 00:47:53,553 UPSTREAM STUFF THAT LEADS TO 1230 00:47:53,553 --> 00:47:54,020 THAT. 1231 00:47:54,020 --> 00:47:55,422 IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO SAY, WELL, 1232 00:47:55,422 --> 00:47:57,490 LET'S DEVELOP A BETTER DRUG. 1233 00:47:57,490 --> 00:47:57,924 YEAH, SURE. 1234 00:47:57,924 --> 00:47:59,459 SOMETIMES IT'S GOOD TO HAVE A 1235 00:47:59,459 --> 00:48:00,327 BETTER DRUG. 1236 00:48:00,327 --> 00:48:01,528 MAYBE IT'S GOOD IF SOMEONE CAN 1237 00:48:01,528 --> 00:48:06,132 TAKE AN INJECTION INSTEAD OF 1238 00:48:06,132 --> 00:48:10,937 GETTING A PILL EVERY DAY. 1239 00:48:10,937 --> 00:48:16,843 BUT THERE IS SO MUCH NEGLECT OF 1240 00:48:16,843 --> 00:48:18,278 POPULATION HEALTH. 1241 00:48:18,278 --> 00:48:19,913 I REALLY THINK THE PRIORITIES, 1242 00:48:19,913 --> 00:48:23,016 SURE, WE NEED BASIC SCIENCE, WE 1243 00:48:23,016 --> 00:48:24,184 NEED TO DEVELOP VACCINES AND, 1244 00:48:24,184 --> 00:48:26,586 YES, IT'S GREAT TO HAVE DRUGS 1245 00:48:26,586 --> 00:48:28,254 THAT ARE GOING TO GIVE PEOPLE 1246 00:48:28,254 --> 00:48:32,092 ANOTHER TWO OR THREE MONTHS OF 1247 00:48:32,092 --> 00:48:34,794 DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL, YOU KNOW, 1248 00:48:34,794 --> 00:48:36,296 WITH THEIR LUNG CANCER, AS 1249 00:48:36,296 --> 00:48:38,098 REPORTED IN THE NEW ENGLAND 1250 00:48:38,098 --> 00:48:39,399 JOURNAL THIS WEEK. 1251 00:48:39,399 --> 00:48:41,267 BUT THERE'S SO MUCH MORE THAT WE 1252 00:48:41,267 --> 00:48:42,469 NEED TO DO. 1253 00:48:42,469 --> 00:48:45,171 THERE'S SO MANY PEOPLE THAT ARE 1254 00:48:45,171 --> 00:48:46,306 DYING EARLY. 1255 00:48:46,306 --> 00:48:48,274 IT IS A CATASTROPHE. 1256 00:48:48,274 --> 00:48:51,211 YEARS AGO, I REMEMBER READING AN 1257 00:48:51,211 --> 00:48:53,313 ARTICLE ABOUT DECLINE OF LIFE 1258 00:48:53,313 --> 00:48:55,281 EXPECTANCY IN THE SOVIET UNION, 1259 00:48:55,281 --> 00:48:56,049 IN THE 1980s. 1260 00:48:56,049 --> 00:48:59,019 I SAW THAT AND SAID MY GOD, HOW 1261 00:48:59,019 --> 00:49:02,522 CAN THAT COUNTRY SURVIVE? 1262 00:49:02,522 --> 00:49:05,458 WELL, THIS IS A FIVE-ALARM FIRE. 1263 00:49:05,458 --> 00:49:08,928 LIFE EXPECTANCY IS DECLINING, 1264 00:49:08,928 --> 00:49:10,196 PEOPLE ARE DYING OF DISEASES 1265 00:49:10,196 --> 00:49:11,598 THEY SHOULDN'T DIE OF. 1266 00:49:11,598 --> 00:49:13,233 PEOPLE ARE GOING INTO MEDICAL 1267 00:49:13,233 --> 00:49:14,534 SCHOOL, 10% OF STUDENTS IN THE 1268 00:49:14,534 --> 00:49:16,870 FIRST YEAR OF CLASS HAVE ALREADY 1269 00:49:16,870 --> 00:49:18,038 SELECTED ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY NOT 1270 00:49:18,038 --> 00:49:19,372 BECAUSE OF LOVE OF BONES, THEY 1271 00:49:19,372 --> 00:49:21,007 MIGHT TELL YOU THAT'S WHY THEY 1272 00:49:21,007 --> 00:49:22,442 ARE DOING IT, BUT BECAUSE THEY 1273 00:49:22,442 --> 00:49:26,446 CAN MAKE SO MUCH MONEY DOING IT. 1274 00:49:26,446 --> 00:49:30,617 OUR MEDICAL STUDENTS, SOME ARE 1275 00:49:30,617 --> 00:49:31,384 VERY IDEALISTIC. 1276 00:49:31,384 --> 00:49:34,020 WHEN YOU GET A COMMUNICATION 1277 00:49:34,020 --> 00:49:36,423 LETTER A LOT HAVE A SIGNATURE 1278 00:49:36,423 --> 00:49:37,524 BLOCK THAT LISTS PREFERRED 1279 00:49:37,524 --> 00:49:40,927 PRONOUNCE, WHICH IS GREAT, AN 1280 00:49:40,927 --> 00:49:41,995 ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF DIVERSITY. 1281 00:49:41,995 --> 00:49:45,098 BUT SOME YEARS FROM NOW, THEY 1282 00:49:45,098 --> 00:49:47,701 WILL HAVE -- MAY STILL HAVE 1283 00:49:47,701 --> 00:49:49,569 PLEASED PRONOUNS BUT WILL HAVE 1284 00:49:49,569 --> 00:49:51,471 PREFER INSURANCE AND IT WON'T BE 1285 00:49:51,471 --> 00:49:53,173 THE INSURANCE 90 MILLION 1286 00:49:53,173 --> 00:49:54,140 AMERICANS HAVE, MEDICAID. 1287 00:49:54,140 --> 00:49:57,677 WE GOT TO SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS. 1288 00:49:57,677 --> 00:50:03,883 THE NIH SHOULD GO ALL IN WITH 1289 00:50:03,883 --> 00:50:04,851 POPULATION HEALTH. 1290 00:50:04,851 --> 00:50:10,590 SOMETIMES WHEN I GIVE TALKS 1291 00:50:10,590 --> 00:50:12,692 PURSUANT TO MY BOOK, I QUOTE 1292 00:50:12,692 --> 00:50:14,227 JOHN DUNN. 1293 00:50:14,227 --> 00:50:15,762 ANY MAN'S DEATH DIMINISHES ME 1294 00:50:15,762 --> 00:50:17,897 BECAUSE I'M INVOLVED IN MANKIND. 1295 00:50:17,897 --> 00:50:20,233 THAT SHOULD BE THE MANTRA OF THE 1296 00:50:20,233 --> 00:50:20,433 NIH. 1297 00:50:20,433 --> 00:50:23,536 ANY MAN'S DEATH, ANY PERSON'S 1298 00:50:23,536 --> 00:50:25,505 DEATH, ANY PERSON'S DEATH. 1299 00:50:25,505 --> 00:50:26,406 AND THEY SHOULD INVEST ACCORDING 1300 00:50:26,406 --> 00:50:28,875 TO WHAT'S GOING TO DO THE MOST 1301 00:50:28,875 --> 00:50:31,978 TO PREVENT THOSE DEATHS THAT CAN 1302 00:50:31,978 --> 00:50:35,682 BE PREVENTED. 1303 00:50:35,682 --> 00:50:36,216 1304 00:50:36,216 --> 00:50:38,952 >> ELISEO, YOU'RE ON MUTE. 1305 00:50:38,952 --> 00:50:41,287 >> I WANT TO TURN TO A QUESTION 1306 00:50:41,287 --> 00:50:42,822 IN THE CHAT. 1307 00:50:42,822 --> 00:50:44,023 ALTHOUGH I DO THINK THERE'S MORE 1308 00:50:44,023 --> 00:50:46,092 BEING DONE AT THE NIH THAN YOU 1309 00:50:46,092 --> 00:50:47,327 GIVE US CREDIT FOR, MARTIN, 1310 00:50:47,327 --> 00:50:51,331 WE'LL COME BACK TO THAT. 1311 00:50:51,331 --> 00:50:52,732 REGARDING YOUR PROPOSAL FOR 1312 00:50:52,732 --> 00:50:53,867 MEDICAL SCHOOL ADMISSIONS HOW DO 1313 00:50:53,867 --> 00:50:55,835 YOU SCREEN FOR THINGS LIKE 1314 00:50:55,835 --> 00:50:57,137 MORALS, ETHICS, SOCIAL 1315 00:50:57,137 --> 00:50:58,238 RESPONSIBILITY AND ALTRUISM AND 1316 00:50:58,238 --> 00:51:01,074 HOW DO YOU ENSURE THAT 1317 00:51:01,074 --> 00:51:02,842 APPLICANTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE IN 1318 00:51:02,842 --> 00:51:04,577 THESE THINGS, IN THESE VALUES, 1319 00:51:04,577 --> 00:51:06,446 RATHER THAN SIMPLY LEARNING THE 1320 00:51:06,446 --> 00:51:08,848 CORRECT THING TO SAY OR TREATING 1321 00:51:08,848 --> 00:51:11,351 THEM LIKE, YOU KNOW, BOX 1322 00:51:11,351 --> 00:51:12,786 CHECKING EXERCISE FOR THE 1323 00:51:12,786 --> 00:51:14,120 PURPOSE OF THEIR APPLICATION? 1324 00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:15,622 SEEMS LIKE THERE'S A RISK THAT 1325 00:51:15,622 --> 00:51:17,590 THOSE WHO ALREADY HAVE THE LEG 1326 00:51:17,590 --> 00:51:19,259 UP COULD JUST ADAPT BUT NOT 1327 00:51:19,259 --> 00:51:21,694 TRULY GROW AND FIX THE PROBLEM. 1328 00:51:21,694 --> 00:51:25,698 >> I WOULD AGREE BUT SOCIAL 1329 00:51:25,698 --> 00:51:27,867 PSYCHOLOGISTS SPEND THEIR 1330 00:51:27,867 --> 00:51:30,537 CAREERS DEVELOPING MEASURES OF 1331 00:51:30,537 --> 00:51:31,037 THINGS LIKE THIS. 1332 00:51:31,037 --> 00:51:33,006 OF COURSE THEY HAVE TO BE TESTED 1333 00:51:33,006 --> 00:51:34,174 FOR THESE PURPOSES. 1334 00:51:34,174 --> 00:51:37,310 BUT WE INVEST A LOT IN PEOPLE 1335 00:51:37,310 --> 00:51:38,711 DEVELOPING MEASURES OF QUALITY 1336 00:51:38,711 --> 00:51:40,380 OF LIFE, THIS, THAT, AND THE 1337 00:51:40,380 --> 00:51:41,014 OTHER. 1338 00:51:41,014 --> 00:51:46,953 WHY NOT INVEST IN DEVELOPING 1339 00:51:46,953 --> 00:51:48,488 RELIABLE WAYS OF MEASURING OR 1340 00:51:48,488 --> 00:51:50,023 DETECTING THE VALUES OF PEOPLE? 1341 00:51:50,023 --> 00:51:51,758 NOW, MEMBERS OF THEIR 1342 00:51:51,758 --> 00:51:52,392 COMMUNITIES, I SUGGESTED 1343 00:51:52,392 --> 00:51:55,028 COMMUNITY MEMBERS SHOULD BE ABLE 1344 00:51:55,028 --> 00:51:56,229 TO NOMINATE. 1345 00:51:56,229 --> 00:51:57,764 THAT COULD GET POLITICIZED TOO 1346 00:51:57,764 --> 00:51:58,631 AND COULD GET DISTORTED. 1347 00:51:58,631 --> 00:52:03,469 THEY WOULD HAVE TO THINK ABOUT 1348 00:52:03,469 --> 00:52:06,105 HOW TO NOT HAVE THAT HAPPEN. 1349 00:52:06,105 --> 00:52:07,841 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE COME DO 1350 00:52:07,841 --> 00:52:08,608 MEDICAL SCHOOL, THE ETHOS IS NOT 1351 00:52:08,608 --> 00:52:10,376 WHAT IT SHOULD BE. 1352 00:52:10,376 --> 00:52:17,584 I TALKED ABOUT THE WHITE COAT 1353 00:52:17,584 --> 00:52:18,685 CEREMONY, CELEBRATING WITH 1354 00:52:18,685 --> 00:52:20,019 FAMILIES, REFERENCE TO ETHICAL 1355 00:52:20,019 --> 00:52:23,723 RESPONSIBILITY, MIGHT BE BETTER 1356 00:52:23,723 --> 00:52:28,995 TO DO WHAT POPE FRANCIS DID ON 1357 00:52:28,995 --> 00:52:30,096 HIS FIRST DAY, WASHING THE FEET 1358 00:52:30,096 --> 00:52:31,431 OF THE POOR REMINDER WHAT HE WAS 1359 00:52:31,431 --> 00:52:33,299 SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT. 1360 00:52:33,299 --> 00:52:34,901 NOW, THERE COULD BE ANALOGOUS 1361 00:52:34,901 --> 00:52:41,474 THINGS THAT ONE CAN DO. 1362 00:52:41,474 --> 00:52:43,243 AND I THINK WE COULD GET THERE. 1363 00:52:43,243 --> 00:52:45,979 I THINK WE COULD GET THERE. 1364 00:52:45,979 --> 00:52:49,782 BUT, YOU KNOW, DANIEL MARKOWITZ 1365 00:52:49,782 --> 00:52:52,518 WROTE A GREAT BOOK ON 1366 00:52:52,518 --> 00:52:54,587 MERITOCRACY, BASICALLY THE 1367 00:52:54,587 --> 00:52:57,457 CURRENT PATTERN OF SELECTION 1368 00:52:57,457 --> 00:52:58,324 JUST PROVIDES MORE EQUITY TO 1369 00:52:58,324 --> 00:52:59,626 THOSE PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES 1370 00:52:59,626 --> 00:53:02,495 WHO ALREADY HAVE LOTS OF IT. 1371 00:53:02,495 --> 00:53:05,298 >> ALL RIGHT. 1372 00:53:05,298 --> 00:53:05,865 MONICA, ARE YOU ON? 1373 00:53:05,865 --> 00:53:07,967 DO YOU HAVE A COMMENT OR 1374 00:53:07,967 --> 00:53:09,602 QUESTION FOR MARTIN? 1375 00:53:09,602 --> 00:53:11,004 >> I AM. 1376 00:53:11,004 --> 00:53:11,237 HI. 1377 00:53:11,237 --> 00:53:13,873 THANK YOU, ELISEO. 1378 00:53:13,873 --> 00:53:14,741 I DO. 1379 00:53:14,741 --> 00:53:16,276 I APPRECIATE THE THINGS YOU 1380 00:53:16,276 --> 00:53:18,111 BRING TO THE TABLE IN YOUR 1381 00:53:18,111 --> 00:53:20,313 DISCUSSION BECAUSE IT'S VERY 1382 00:53:20,313 --> 00:53:21,748 THOUGHT PROVOKING. 1383 00:53:21,748 --> 00:53:23,917 I THINK MANY PEOPLE HAVE TALKED 1384 00:53:23,917 --> 00:53:25,885 ABOUT THIS TO SOME DEGREE. 1385 00:53:25,885 --> 00:53:28,955 YOU BRING IT TOGETHER IN 1386 00:53:28,955 --> 00:53:31,124 INTERESTING AND, YEAH, THOUGHT 1387 00:53:31,124 --> 00:53:31,491 PROVOKING WAYS. 1388 00:53:31,491 --> 00:53:33,226 MY QUESTION, SOME PEOPLE REFER 1389 00:53:33,226 --> 00:53:34,761 TO THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM 1390 00:53:34,761 --> 00:53:37,063 AS REALLY MORE OF A SICK CARE 1391 00:53:37,063 --> 00:53:39,032 SYSTEM VERSUS HEALTH CARE. 1392 00:53:39,032 --> 00:53:40,033 YOU KNOW, IT'S INCREASINGLY 1393 00:53:40,033 --> 00:53:42,201 DIFFICULT TO GET AN APPOINTMENT 1394 00:53:42,201 --> 00:53:43,836 TO SEE YOUR DOCTOR FOR MONTHS 1395 00:53:43,836 --> 00:53:45,805 SOMETIMES AND AS YOU SAID, TIME 1396 00:53:45,805 --> 00:53:47,874 WITH CLINICIANS IS JUST VERY 1397 00:53:47,874 --> 00:53:48,675 LIMITED. 1398 00:53:48,675 --> 00:53:50,843 I THINK OTHER THINGS, 1399 00:53:50,843 --> 00:53:51,511 PREVENTION, MENTAL AND 1400 00:53:51,511 --> 00:53:54,681 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ARE JUST NOT 1401 00:53:54,681 --> 00:53:56,182 PRIORITIZED IN FAVOR OF THE 1402 00:53:56,182 --> 00:53:57,750 BIOMEDICAL MODEL. 1403 00:53:57,750 --> 00:53:59,585 AND RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT 1404 00:53:59,585 --> 00:54:01,020 ATTENTION TO THESE ASPECTS OF 1405 00:54:01,020 --> 00:54:03,756 HEALTH ARE NOT ONLY CRITICAL FOR 1406 00:54:03,756 --> 00:54:05,158 REDUCING PREVENTIBLE DEATH AND 1407 00:54:05,158 --> 00:54:07,460 DISEASE BUT ALSO REALLY COST 1408 00:54:07,460 --> 00:54:08,461 EFFECTIVE. 1409 00:54:08,461 --> 00:54:09,329 SO FROM YOUR EXPERIENCE, WHAT 1410 00:54:09,329 --> 00:54:12,398 ARE SOME OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE 1411 00:54:12,398 --> 00:54:14,167 STRATEGIES TO BRIDGE THE GAP 1412 00:54:14,167 --> 00:54:16,235 BETWEEN RESEARCH FINDINGS AND 1413 00:54:16,235 --> 00:54:17,870 THEIR IMPLEMENTATION IN CLINICAL 1414 00:54:17,870 --> 00:54:19,305 PRACTICE FOR THESE AND OTHER 1415 00:54:19,305 --> 00:54:21,708 CLINICAL PRACTICE KINDS OF 1416 00:54:21,708 --> 00:54:21,941 ISSUES? 1417 00:54:21,941 --> 00:54:28,514 >> WELL, I'M NOT A GREAT 1418 00:54:28,514 --> 00:54:29,248 IMPLEMENTATION SCIENTIST. 1419 00:54:29,248 --> 00:54:31,217 I WOULD DEFER TO OTHERS. 1420 00:54:31,217 --> 00:54:32,652 BUT I THINK INVESTING IN LOTS OF 1421 00:54:32,652 --> 00:54:35,722 EFFORTS TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO 1422 00:54:35,722 --> 00:54:38,224 THIS, PUTTING LOTS AND LOTS OF 1423 00:54:38,224 --> 00:54:39,659 RESOURCES INTO DOING IT IN 1424 00:54:39,659 --> 00:54:42,695 PRIORITY AREAS IS GOING TO 1425 00:54:42,695 --> 00:54:45,298 IDENTIFY THE STRATEGIES FOR 1426 00:54:45,298 --> 00:54:48,167 DOING SO THAT ARE MOST 1427 00:54:48,167 --> 00:54:48,968 EFFECTIVE. 1428 00:54:48,968 --> 00:54:51,904 I THINK JUST SAYING, OH WELL, 1429 00:54:51,904 --> 00:54:53,106 THIS IS A PRIORITY, LET'S MAKE 1430 00:54:53,106 --> 00:54:54,974 THIS A PRIORITY AND GO OUT AND 1431 00:54:54,974 --> 00:54:57,810 DO STUFF, WE WOULDN'T DO THAT 1432 00:54:57,810 --> 00:54:58,711 WITH MEDICATIONS. 1433 00:54:58,711 --> 00:55:02,615 WE NEED SCIENCE AND WE NEED MORE 1434 00:55:02,615 --> 00:55:02,949 SCIENCE. 1435 00:55:02,949 --> 00:55:04,183 ELISEO, I KNOW THERE'S STUFF 1436 00:55:04,183 --> 00:55:05,485 GOING ON AT NIH. 1437 00:55:05,485 --> 00:55:10,056 I'M ARGUING THAT IT'S NOT NEARLY 1438 00:55:10,056 --> 00:55:11,824 ENOUGH. 1439 00:55:11,824 --> 00:55:13,359 WHY CAN'T $20 BILLION OF THE $50 1440 00:55:13,359 --> 00:55:14,894 BILLION BE DEVOTED TO THESE 1441 00:55:14,894 --> 00:55:17,764 KINDS OF THINGS? 1442 00:55:17,764 --> 00:55:18,498 1443 00:55:18,498 --> 00:55:22,668 >> CAN I ASK A FOLLOW-UP 1444 00:55:22,668 --> 00:55:26,739 QUESTION ABOUT HOW WE SHOULD BE 1445 00:55:26,739 --> 00:55:29,342 THINKING ABOUT WHAT HAS THE MOST 1446 00:55:29,342 --> 00:55:30,777 POPULATION HEALTH IMPACT AT NIH 1447 00:55:30,777 --> 00:55:35,581 AND SO JUST AS AN EXAMPLE, ONE 1448 00:55:35,581 --> 00:55:41,187 OF THE AREAS I STUDIED IN MY 1449 00:55:41,187 --> 00:55:43,356 PAST IS PEDIATRIC HEREDITARY 1450 00:55:43,356 --> 00:55:44,690 CONDITIONS, WHICH ARE FAIRLY 1451 00:55:44,690 --> 00:55:46,325 RARE. 1452 00:55:46,325 --> 00:55:48,928 SO IF YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT 1453 00:55:48,928 --> 00:55:50,229 THESE CONDITIONS OUT OF 1454 00:55:50,229 --> 00:55:51,864 POPULATION IMPACT LEVEL IN TERMS 1455 00:55:51,864 --> 00:55:54,200 OF THE NUMBERS OF INDIVIDUALS 1456 00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:56,702 WHO HAVE EACH OF THESE 1457 00:55:56,702 --> 00:55:59,338 CONDITIONS, THERE AREN'T THAT 1458 00:55:59,338 --> 00:56:02,175 MANY PEOPLE. 1459 00:56:02,175 --> 00:56:04,043 HOWEVER, THESE CONDITIONS ARE 1460 00:56:04,043 --> 00:56:06,913 RESPONSIBLE FOR A SUBSTANTIAL 1461 00:56:06,913 --> 00:56:08,748 FRACTION OF HOSPITALIZATIONS 1462 00:56:08,748 --> 00:56:11,384 AMONG CHILDREN, AS WELL AS A 1463 00:56:11,384 --> 00:56:15,188 SUBSTANTIAL FRACTION OF THE COST 1464 00:56:15,188 --> 00:56:16,089 FOR PEDIATRIC CARE. 1465 00:56:16,089 --> 00:56:20,259 AND SO I'M JUST WONDERING, YOU 1466 00:56:20,259 --> 00:56:24,964 KNOW, HOW WE PRIORITIZE, WHAT IS 1467 00:56:24,964 --> 00:56:30,336 THE MOST IMPACTFUL PUBLIC 1468 00:56:30,336 --> 00:56:32,071 HEALTH-RELATED TOPIC NIH SHOULD 1469 00:56:32,071 --> 00:56:33,172 BE STUDYING, MERELY BASED ON THE 1470 00:56:33,172 --> 00:56:34,607 NUMBER OF PEOPLE IMPACTED OR 1471 00:56:34,607 --> 00:56:36,876 WHAT MEASURES WOULD WE USE? 1472 00:56:36,876 --> 00:56:38,945 >> THAT'S A GREAT WAY OF FRAMING 1473 00:56:38,945 --> 00:56:41,180 THE QUESTION. 1474 00:56:41,180 --> 00:56:44,150 I WOULD SAY IT'S NOT FOR ME TO 1475 00:56:44,150 --> 00:56:44,450 SAY. 1476 00:56:44,450 --> 00:56:47,186 BUT WE CAN'T BE IGNORING THE BIG 1477 00:56:47,186 --> 00:56:49,155 THINGS THAT ARE KNOCKING OFF 1478 00:56:49,155 --> 00:56:49,922 LOTS OF PEOPLE. 1479 00:56:49,922 --> 00:56:51,657 BUT THERE OUGHT TO BE ROOM TO 1480 00:56:51,657 --> 00:56:53,493 STUDY THE KINDS OF THINGS THAT 1481 00:56:53,493 --> 00:56:56,028 YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT WHICH ALSO 1482 00:56:56,028 --> 00:56:57,463 HAS IMPLICATIONS FOR DELIVERY OF 1483 00:56:57,463 --> 00:57:02,168 HEALTH CARE AS WELL AS THESE 1484 00:57:02,168 --> 00:57:04,370 OTHER KINDS OF THINGS THAT ARE 1485 00:57:04,370 --> 00:57:08,074 NOT GETTING NEARLY ENOUGH 1486 00:57:08,074 --> 00:57:08,341 ATTENTION. 1487 00:57:08,341 --> 00:57:11,777 AND HOW DO WE DO THIS? 1488 00:57:11,777 --> 00:57:13,779 WELL, I THINK LARGE SWATHS OF 1489 00:57:13,779 --> 00:57:16,282 THE BUDGET COULD BE MOVED INTO 1490 00:57:16,282 --> 00:57:18,017 STUDYING DELIVERY AND STUDYING 1491 00:57:18,017 --> 00:57:20,553 NEED AND STUDYING STRATEGIES FOR 1492 00:57:20,553 --> 00:57:23,256 IMPROVING UPTAKE OF TREATMENTS. 1493 00:57:23,256 --> 00:57:25,892 WHEN I DID THE WORK ON HIV WE 1494 00:57:25,892 --> 00:57:29,195 HAPPENED TO GO INTO THE FIELD 1495 00:57:29,195 --> 00:57:32,632 JUST AS HIGHLY ACTIVE AND 1496 00:57:32,632 --> 00:57:33,799 ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY BECAME 1497 00:57:33,799 --> 00:57:34,233 AVAILABLE. 1498 00:57:34,233 --> 00:57:35,234 WE TRACKED DIFFUSION OF 1499 00:57:35,234 --> 00:57:36,536 TREATMENT IN THE POPULATION IN 1500 00:57:36,536 --> 00:57:37,737 THE UNITED STATES. 1501 00:57:37,737 --> 00:57:40,273 PEOPLE WHO WERE IN CARE. 1502 00:57:40,273 --> 00:57:41,741 AND AMONG PEOPLE WITH ADVANCED 1503 00:57:41,741 --> 00:57:44,644 DISEASE IT SHOULD COME AS NO 1504 00:57:44,644 --> 00:57:48,147 SURPRISE THAT WHITES GOT TREATED 1505 00:57:48,147 --> 00:57:50,683 MORE RAPIDLY THAN BLACKS, THAT 1506 00:57:50,683 --> 00:57:52,852 MEN SOONER THAN WOMEN, THOSE 1507 00:57:52,852 --> 00:57:55,054 WITH PRIVATE INSURANCE SOONER 1508 00:57:55,054 --> 00:57:57,023 THAN PEOPLE WITH MEDICAID MORE 1509 00:57:57,023 --> 00:58:01,093 LIKELY UNINSURED, AND SO ON. 1510 00:58:01,093 --> 00:58:01,861 AND THOSE ARE UNACCEPTABLE 1511 00:58:01,861 --> 00:58:02,261 PATTERNS. 1512 00:58:02,261 --> 00:58:07,200 AND ALL OF THAT NEEDS TO BE 1513 00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:07,633 ADDRESSED. 1514 00:58:07,633 --> 00:58:10,603 YOU KNOW, YES, TREATMENTS ARE 1515 00:58:10,603 --> 00:58:12,104 IMPROVING FOR VARIOUS 1516 00:58:12,104 --> 00:58:12,638 CONDITIONS. 1517 00:58:12,638 --> 00:58:15,741 LET'S MAKE SURE THAT TREATMENTS 1518 00:58:15,741 --> 00:58:17,276 THAT ARE GIVEN PRIORITY IN THE 1519 00:58:17,276 --> 00:58:19,178 SYSTEM ARE AVAILABLE TO 1520 00:58:19,178 --> 00:58:19,445 EVERYONE. 1521 00:58:19,445 --> 00:58:21,981 LET'S MAKE SURE THAT IF THE 1522 00:58:21,981 --> 00:58:23,883 UPTAKE ISN'T EQUITABLE WE FIGURE 1523 00:58:23,883 --> 00:58:29,989 OUT WHY IT ISN'T EQUITABLE. 1524 00:58:29,989 --> 00:58:31,424 SO ARE THERE SMART PEOPLE AROUND 1525 00:58:31,424 --> 00:58:32,825 WHO CAN FIGURE THIS OUT? 1526 00:58:32,825 --> 00:58:36,662 THE ONE THING I DROPPED IN, I 1527 00:58:36,662 --> 00:58:44,737 REALIZE NIH CAN'T JUST DO THIS, 1528 00:58:44,737 --> 00:58:46,606 BUT, YOU KNOW, A FRIEND OF MINE 1529 00:58:46,606 --> 00:58:48,140 WHO IS A REPUBLICAN COMMENTED 1530 00:58:48,140 --> 00:58:50,910 THAT FOR THE NIH TO FUND A 1531 00:58:50,910 --> 00:58:52,511 STUDY, THAT LEADS TO THE 1532 00:58:52,511 --> 00:58:53,813 DEVELOPMENT OF A DRUG AND GET 1533 00:58:53,813 --> 00:58:58,117 NONE OF THE REVENUE IS 1534 00:58:58,117 --> 00:58:58,618 SCIENTIFIC MALPRACTICE. 1535 00:58:58,618 --> 00:59:01,988 AND THIS WAS SOMEONE WHO WORKED 1536 00:59:01,988 --> 00:59:04,657 IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. 1537 00:59:04,657 --> 00:59:06,225 AND I THINK THAT'S TRUE. 1538 00:59:06,225 --> 00:59:08,661 WHY NOT BRING A LOT OF THAT 1539 00:59:08,661 --> 00:59:16,335 REVENUE BACK INTO THE NIH AND 1540 00:59:16,335 --> 00:59:19,372 USE THAT FOR STUDYING 1541 00:59:19,372 --> 00:59:20,072 DISSEMINATION, STUDYING 1542 00:59:20,072 --> 00:59:20,439 IMPLEMENTATION? 1543 00:59:20,439 --> 00:59:24,210 IN A FAR MORE SERIOUS WAY. 1544 00:59:24,210 --> 00:59:26,312 >> FIND A WAY TO REDUCE OUR BASE 1545 00:59:26,312 --> 00:59:30,449 BUDGET IF WE DID THAT, JUST LIKE 1546 00:59:30,449 --> 00:59:30,716 WITH FDA. 1547 00:59:30,716 --> 00:59:35,921 I THINK IT IS A TOPIC OF 1548 00:59:35,921 --> 00:59:37,123 DISCUSSION, PARTICULARLY AROUND 1549 00:59:37,123 --> 00:59:39,091 THE RIDICULOUS HIGH COST OF 1550 00:59:39,091 --> 00:59:41,394 DRUGS FOR PEOPLE PAYING BOTH OUT 1551 00:59:41,394 --> 00:59:44,463 OF POCKET, NOT JUST FOR RARE 1552 00:59:44,463 --> 00:59:45,965 DISEASES OR UNCOMMON BUT ALSO 1553 00:59:45,965 --> 00:59:48,301 FOR COMMON DISEASES LIKE HEART 1554 00:59:48,301 --> 00:59:49,402 FAILURE, DIABETES, ET CETERA. 1555 00:59:49,402 --> 00:59:53,773 SO LET ME GO TO AN AUDIENCE 1556 00:59:53,773 --> 00:59:54,140 QUESTION. 1557 00:59:54,140 --> 01:00:04,684 CAN DR. SHAPIRO CLARIFY WHAT HE 1558 01:00:08,921 --> 01:00:09,455 MEANS BY "GOVERNMENT." 1559 01:00:09,455 --> 01:00:15,661 >> I THINK THAT'S A FAIR 1560 01:00:15,661 --> 01:00:16,862 CHARACTERIZATION, YES, WE'RE 1561 01:00:16,862 --> 01:00:19,165 PROBABLY NOT GOING TO GET A 1562 01:00:19,165 --> 01:00:21,901 SINGLE PAYER SYSTEM WITHOUT 1563 01:00:21,901 --> 01:00:22,568 ELECTED OFFICIALS PARTICIPATING. 1564 01:00:22,568 --> 01:00:24,437 IN TERMS OF THE AGENCIES, LOOK, 1565 01:00:24,437 --> 01:00:25,838 I MENTIONED HOW WE SHOULD MAKE 1566 01:00:25,838 --> 01:00:27,039 SURE EVERYTHING IS COST 1567 01:00:27,039 --> 01:00:27,606 EFFECTIVE. 1568 01:00:27,606 --> 01:00:31,010 THEN YOU HAVE PEOPLE IN CONGRESS 1569 01:00:31,010 --> 01:00:32,445 WHO WILL NOT ALLOW PCORI, FOR 1570 01:00:32,445 --> 01:00:35,047 EXAMPLE, TO DO COST 1571 01:00:35,047 --> 01:00:35,881 EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS. 1572 01:00:35,881 --> 01:00:38,884 WHICH IN THE U.S., NOT TO DO 1573 01:00:38,884 --> 01:00:39,752 COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS IS 1574 01:00:39,752 --> 01:00:42,822 LIKE WHAT ARE THEY THINKING? 1575 01:00:42,822 --> 01:00:46,792 OR AS YOU PROBABLY -- MANY OF 1576 01:00:46,792 --> 01:00:50,229 YOU WILL KNOW, WHEN OF THE 1577 01:00:50,229 --> 01:00:51,664 PRECURSOR OF AHRQ I DON'T KNOW 1578 01:00:51,664 --> 01:00:53,265 FUNDED AND SUPPORTED A STUDY 1579 01:00:53,265 --> 01:00:54,800 THAT SUGGESTED CERTAIN BACK 1580 01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:59,705 SURGERIES WERE NOT BETTER THAN 1581 01:00:59,705 --> 01:01:00,272 MEDICAL TREATMENT, THE 1582 01:01:00,272 --> 01:01:03,976 ORTHOPEDIC LOB LOBBY GOT THE 1583 01:01:03,976 --> 01:01:06,078 HOUSE TO ZERO OUT THE BUDGET. 1584 01:01:06,078 --> 01:01:11,550 OTHERS TOOK AWAY THE GUIDELINES 1585 01:01:11,550 --> 01:01:11,951 PORTFOLIO AS WELL. 1586 01:01:11,951 --> 01:01:13,753 THERE ARE REALLY PROBLEMS IN THE 1587 01:01:13,753 --> 01:01:16,021 POLITICAL PROCESS BUT WITHIN 1588 01:01:16,021 --> 01:01:16,989 AGENCIES THERE ARE PRESUMABLY 1589 01:01:16,989 --> 01:01:19,091 THINGS THAT COULD BE DONE. 1590 01:01:19,091 --> 01:01:21,527 THE APPROPRIATION WITHIN THE NIH 1591 01:01:21,527 --> 01:01:23,295 BUDGET OBVIOUSLY THERE IS SOME 1592 01:01:23,295 --> 01:01:25,464 MANDATE WITHIN THAT BUDGET. 1593 01:01:25,464 --> 01:01:27,299 BUT THERE IS MORE DISCRETION. 1594 01:01:27,299 --> 01:01:27,733 AND -- 1595 01:01:27,733 --> 01:01:30,936 >> THERE IS BUT JUST TO MAKE 1596 01:01:30,936 --> 01:01:37,076 SURE WE ALL UNDERSTAND, NIH IS A 1597 01:01:37,076 --> 01:01:40,346 FEDERATION OF 24 GRANT-GIVING 1598 01:01:40,346 --> 01:01:42,448 INSTITUTES AND CENTERS, AND SO 1599 01:01:42,448 --> 01:01:44,250 IT'S REALLY THE PRIORITIES ARE 1600 01:01:44,250 --> 01:01:46,719 SET BY EACH OF THE INSTITUTES. 1601 01:01:46,719 --> 01:01:50,756 IT'S NOT LIKE WE IS MOVE LIKE 1602 01:01:50,756 --> 01:01:54,827 MONICA BERTAGNOLLI CAN SAY $10 1603 01:01:54,827 --> 01:01:56,462 BILLION INTO THIS OR $8 BILLION 1604 01:01:56,462 --> 01:01:57,563 INTO THAT, IT DOESN'T WORK THAT 1605 01:01:57,563 --> 01:01:58,964 WAY AT NIH. 1606 01:01:58,964 --> 01:02:00,266 IT'S ONE OF THE UNIQUE 1607 01:02:00,266 --> 01:02:00,533 STRENGTHS. 1608 01:02:00,533 --> 01:02:04,236 LET ME GO BACK TO HEALTH SYSTEM 1609 01:02:04,236 --> 01:02:06,105 SOLUTIONS PERHAPS. 1610 01:02:06,105 --> 01:02:08,507 I THOUGHT THAT DOING THE 1611 01:02:08,507 --> 01:02:08,974 AFFORDABLE CARE ACT 1612 01:02:08,974 --> 01:02:10,810 IMPLEMENTATION ONE OF THE 1613 01:02:10,810 --> 01:02:12,111 DRIVERS, AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW 1614 01:02:12,111 --> 01:02:13,946 NOW THAT YOU'VE BEEN AN EAST 1615 01:02:13,946 --> 01:02:16,382 COASTER FOR A FEW YEARS, THERE'S 1616 01:02:16,382 --> 01:02:18,017 A DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE IN HEALTH 1617 01:02:18,017 --> 01:02:19,652 CARE ORGANIZATION IN SOME WAYS, 1618 01:02:19,652 --> 01:02:24,123 NOT ALL, NOT IN MANY BUT SOME 1619 01:02:24,123 --> 01:02:25,458 BETWEEN EAST AND WEST, 1620 01:02:25,458 --> 01:02:27,626 PARTICULARLY AROUND THE VALUE OF 1621 01:02:27,626 --> 01:02:28,961 PRIMARY CARE AND PARTICULARLY 1622 01:02:28,961 --> 01:02:31,997 AROUND THE ISSUE OF HOW PEOPLE 1623 01:02:31,997 --> 01:02:35,167 LOOK AT POPULATION HEALTH. 1624 01:02:35,167 --> 01:02:36,702 THAT ASIDE, THERE WAS A MOVE, A 1625 01:02:36,702 --> 01:02:38,237 DIRECTION TOWARD ACCOUNTABLE 1626 01:02:38,237 --> 01:02:39,905 CARE ORGANIZATIONS WHERE THE 1627 01:02:39,905 --> 01:02:41,540 IDEA WOULD BE THAT HEALTH CARE 1628 01:02:41,540 --> 01:02:44,710 SYSTEM WOULD SAY I'M RESPONSIBLE 1629 01:02:44,710 --> 01:02:47,346 FOR THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE UNDER 1630 01:02:47,346 --> 01:02:49,648 THE SYSTEM AND THEN WE WILL 1631 01:02:49,648 --> 01:02:51,283 COVER EVERYBODY AND DO WHAT WE 1632 01:02:51,283 --> 01:02:53,486 CAN WITH ALL THE SERVICES AND 1633 01:02:53,486 --> 01:02:57,623 RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE, AND WE 1634 01:02:57,623 --> 01:02:59,225 HAVEN'T FIGURED OUT BUDGETS, 1635 01:02:59,225 --> 01:03:03,562 STILL DRIVEN BY FEE FOR FEE FOR 1636 01:03:03,562 --> 01:03:06,966 SERVICE OR A LOT THROUGH STAFF 1637 01:03:06,966 --> 01:03:10,369 MODEL HMO OR HMO-TYPE SYSTEMS 1638 01:03:10,369 --> 01:03:11,670 PAYMENT PER MEMBER PER MONTH. 1639 01:03:11,670 --> 01:03:13,739 THAT SEEMED TO END OR AT LEAST 1640 01:03:13,739 --> 01:03:18,444 WAS I WOULDN'T SAY END BUT WAS 1641 01:03:18,444 --> 01:03:20,613 PAUSED COMPLETELY IN 2017, AND 1642 01:03:20,613 --> 01:03:21,847 HASN'T REALLY BEEN REIGNITED, I 1643 01:03:21,847 --> 01:03:24,450 HAVEN'T SEEN IT AT LEAST, ANY 1644 01:03:24,450 --> 01:03:30,155 THOUGHTS ON THAT AS A POTENTIAL 1645 01:03:30,155 --> 01:03:30,689 INCREMENTAL STEP? 1646 01:03:30,689 --> 01:03:32,157 >> WELL, YOU KNOW, MY 1647 01:03:32,157 --> 01:03:34,126 UNDERSTANDING, AGAIN I'M NOT AN 1648 01:03:34,126 --> 01:03:36,962 EXPERT IN THAT, IS THAT IT 1649 01:03:36,962 --> 01:03:39,932 LOOKED LIKE IT HAD TINY EFFECTS, 1650 01:03:39,932 --> 01:03:41,901 WASN'T HAVING MAJOR EFFECTS. 1651 01:03:41,901 --> 01:03:46,305 AND MY SENSE IS THAT THE -- 1652 01:03:46,305 --> 01:03:48,807 THERE WAS ALSO AN EFFORT TO GET 1653 01:03:48,807 --> 01:03:50,175 MORE DOCS TO TAKE MEDICAID 1654 01:03:50,175 --> 01:03:52,444 PATIENTS AND I THINK LIKE A 2% 1655 01:03:52,444 --> 01:03:53,846 JUMP FOR A WHILE. 1656 01:03:53,846 --> 01:03:57,583 WHILE INCENTIVE WAS THERE BUT IT 1657 01:03:57,583 --> 01:03:59,318 WENT AWAY. 1658 01:03:59,318 --> 01:04:03,489 THAT IT REQUIRES BIGGER KINDS OF 1659 01:04:03,489 --> 01:04:04,690 INTERVENTIONS THAN LITTLE 1660 01:04:04,690 --> 01:04:07,693 ECONOMIC MANIPULATIONS, NOT WITH 1661 01:04:07,693 --> 01:04:09,295 STANDING PERSPECTIVE OF 1662 01:04:09,295 --> 01:04:09,762 ECONOMISTS, BEHAVIORAL 1663 01:04:09,762 --> 01:04:12,698 ECONOMISTS ON ALL OF THIS. 1664 01:04:12,698 --> 01:04:14,433 THE MOVIE JURASSIC PARK, YOU MAY 1665 01:04:14,433 --> 01:04:15,768 REMEMBER THE EXPRESSION, NATURE 1666 01:04:15,768 --> 01:04:17,403 FINDS A WAY. 1667 01:04:17,403 --> 01:04:18,070 RIGHT? 1668 01:04:18,070 --> 01:04:20,906 WELL, I THINK THAT'S LIKE THE 1669 01:04:20,906 --> 01:04:22,908 RESPONSE OF THE PROCEDURALLISTS 1670 01:04:22,908 --> 01:04:24,276 TO THE RELATIVE VALUE SCALE, OH 1671 01:04:24,276 --> 01:04:26,579 MY GOD, THIS IS A CATASTROPHE. 1672 01:04:26,579 --> 01:04:28,213 BUT TURNS OUT THEY ARE DOING 1673 01:04:28,213 --> 01:04:29,648 EVEN BETTER THAN THEN BECAUSE 1674 01:04:29,648 --> 01:04:32,251 THEY FOUND A WAY TO WORK AROUND 1675 01:04:32,251 --> 01:04:32,918 THE SYSTEM. 1676 01:04:32,918 --> 01:04:34,787 WE NEED A SYSTEM THEY CAN'T WORK 1677 01:04:34,787 --> 01:04:35,020 AROUND. 1678 01:04:35,020 --> 01:04:37,856 WE NEED A SYSTEM THAT DOES NOT 1679 01:04:37,856 --> 01:04:41,360 OFFER THE POSSIBILITY OF 1680 01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:42,761 BUSINESS AS USUAL. 1681 01:04:42,761 --> 01:04:46,498 AND AGAIN I DON'T PRETEND TO 1682 01:04:46,498 --> 01:04:48,033 HAVE THE SOLUTION. 1683 01:04:48,033 --> 01:04:51,003 BUT LOTS OF RESOURCES NEED TO -- 1684 01:04:51,003 --> 01:04:54,807 YOU GUYS DO IMPORTANT WORK. 1685 01:04:54,807 --> 01:04:56,909 I REALLY BELIEVE IN WHAT NIMHD 1686 01:04:56,909 --> 01:04:57,343 IS DOING. 1687 01:04:57,343 --> 01:04:59,745 AND THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF WORK 1688 01:04:59,745 --> 01:05:01,380 SUPPORTED BY OTHER INSTITUTES 1689 01:05:01,380 --> 01:05:04,216 BUT IT'S NOT NEARLY ENOUGH. 1690 01:05:04,216 --> 01:05:05,951 WHY CAN'T YOUR INSTITUTE HAVE $2 1691 01:05:05,951 --> 01:05:06,552 BILLION A YEAR? 1692 01:05:06,552 --> 01:05:08,187 YOU COULD DO MORE WITH $2 1693 01:05:08,187 --> 01:05:11,624 BILLION A YEAR THAN YOU DO WITH 1694 01:05:11,624 --> 01:05:13,926 FOUR OR FIVE HUNDRED MILLION. 1695 01:05:13,926 --> 01:05:15,427 >> I'LL PRETEND I DIDN'T HEAR 1696 01:05:15,427 --> 01:05:15,861 THAT. 1697 01:05:15,861 --> 01:05:17,730 LET ME TURN TO MONICA TO SEE IF 1698 01:05:17,730 --> 01:05:25,838 SHE HAS A QUESTION OR COMMENT. 1699 01:05:25,838 --> 01:05:28,907 >> YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS 1700 01:05:28,907 --> 01:05:31,543 THAT YOU MENTIONED WAS ABOUT THE 1701 01:05:31,543 --> 01:05:33,078 MEDICAL SCHOOL ASPECT OF THIS, 1702 01:05:33,078 --> 01:05:34,647 AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT REAL 1703 01:05:34,647 --> 01:05:36,582 NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED. 1704 01:05:36,582 --> 01:05:39,351 AND I WANTED YOU TO SAY MORE 1705 01:05:39,351 --> 01:05:40,653 ABOUT THE CURRICULUM CHALLENGES. 1706 01:05:40,653 --> 01:05:41,954 I CAN REMEMBER BEING FACULTY 1707 01:05:41,954 --> 01:05:46,859 MEMBER AT A MEDICAL SCHOOL, AND 1708 01:05:46,859 --> 01:05:48,761 I RAISED A FEW ISSUES IN TERMS 1709 01:05:48,761 --> 01:05:50,729 OF RACISM IN THE MEDICAL SCHOOL 1710 01:05:50,729 --> 01:05:51,997 CURRICULUM WHICH WAS IMPLICIT 1711 01:05:51,997 --> 01:05:55,434 BUT FOR ME IT WAS JUMPING OUT AT 1712 01:05:55,434 --> 01:05:55,668 ME. 1713 01:05:55,668 --> 01:05:57,436 I REMEMBER GETTING PRETTY 1714 01:05:57,436 --> 01:05:58,837 SIGNIFICANT PUSHBACK FROM SOME 1715 01:05:58,837 --> 01:06:01,040 OF THOSE ON THE CORE CURRICULUM 1716 01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:03,008 TEAMS ABOUT MAKING THOSE 1717 01:06:03,008 --> 01:06:03,442 CHANGES. 1718 01:06:03,442 --> 01:06:04,309 INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH FAST 1719 01:06:04,309 --> 01:06:07,079 FORWARD TO 2020, I WAS GETTING 1720 01:06:07,079 --> 01:06:08,480 E-MAILS, APOLOGIZING SAYING 1721 01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:09,848 YOU'RE RIGHT, WE SHOULD CHANGE 1722 01:06:09,848 --> 01:06:11,150 AND WE WILL. 1723 01:06:11,150 --> 01:06:12,918 EVEN IN THE WAY PEOPLE ARE 1724 01:06:12,918 --> 01:06:14,486 TRAINED IN TERMS OF DISPARITY 1725 01:06:14,486 --> 01:06:16,388 REDUCTION, AN IMPORTANT PART OF 1726 01:06:16,388 --> 01:06:17,089 THIS BROKEN SYSTEM, IT'S 1727 01:06:17,089 --> 01:06:19,024 INTERESTING IF YOU COULD COMMENT 1728 01:06:19,024 --> 01:06:23,295 ON THE CURRICULUM CHANGES 1729 01:06:23,295 --> 01:06:24,363 SPECIFICALLY AROUND ADDRESSING 1730 01:06:24,363 --> 01:06:30,069 UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS. 1731 01:06:30,069 --> 01:06:35,307 >> YOU KNOW, IT'S HARD TO KNOW 1732 01:06:35,307 --> 01:06:36,975 BECAUSE MEDICAL STUDENTS WHO I 1733 01:06:36,975 --> 01:06:38,410 ENCOUNTER NOW AT CORNELL, YOU 1734 01:06:38,410 --> 01:06:41,146 KNOW, WILL OFTEN EXPRESS 1735 01:06:41,146 --> 01:06:43,682 POSITIVE SOCIAL VALUES ABOUT, 1736 01:06:43,682 --> 01:06:45,117 OH, WE'RE AGAINST RACISM, WE'RE 1737 01:06:45,117 --> 01:06:46,985 FOR JUSTICE AND ALL THIS. 1738 01:06:46,985 --> 01:06:48,620 BUT WHEN IT COMES TO CHOOSING 1739 01:06:48,620 --> 01:06:51,790 THEIR SPECIALTIES A LOT ARE 1740 01:06:51,790 --> 01:06:53,192 STILL CHOOSING HIGH-PAID FIELDS, 1741 01:06:53,192 --> 01:06:59,231 A LOT ARE STILL GOING INTO 1742 01:06:59,231 --> 01:07:00,532 PRACTICES WHERE INSURANCE 1743 01:07:00,532 --> 01:07:04,136 CHOICES ARE QUITE LIMITED. 1744 01:07:04,136 --> 01:07:06,338 AND I THINK THAT -- I SUGGESTED 1745 01:07:06,338 --> 01:07:08,507 HALF OF THE FIRST TWO YEARS, 1746 01:07:08,507 --> 01:07:10,476 PEOPLE EVEN TALKED ABOUT 1747 01:07:10,476 --> 01:07:11,710 DECREASING MEDICAL SCHOOL BY A 1748 01:07:11,710 --> 01:07:14,680 YEAR, BUT WHY NOT GIVE THEM A 1749 01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:17,950 YEAR OF -- OR YEAR AND A HALF IN 1750 01:07:17,950 --> 01:07:22,988 WHICH HALF OF WHAT THEY ARE 1751 01:07:22,988 --> 01:07:24,957 DOING IS HAVING POSITIVE VALUE 1752 01:07:24,957 --> 01:07:25,724 REINFORCED, ALL KINDS OF 1753 01:07:25,724 --> 01:07:27,126 EXPERIENCES THAT MIGHT HAVE A 1754 01:07:27,126 --> 01:07:27,993 POSITIVE EFFECT ON PEOPLE. 1755 01:07:27,993 --> 01:07:30,429 ALL OF THAT NEEDS TO BE STUDIED. 1756 01:07:30,429 --> 01:07:33,265 WHAT IS IT THAT'S GOING TO TAKE 1757 01:07:33,265 --> 01:07:34,666 PEOPLE, GET PEOPLE TO WANT TO 1758 01:07:34,666 --> 01:07:37,402 TAKE CARE OF POOR PEOPLE, TO 1759 01:07:37,402 --> 01:07:38,403 SACRIFICE SOME INCOME IF 1760 01:07:38,403 --> 01:07:41,573 NECESSARY TO TAKE CARE OF POOR 1761 01:07:41,573 --> 01:07:41,840 PEOPLE? 1762 01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:44,243 WHAT WILL LEAD PEOPLE IN THAT 1763 01:07:44,243 --> 01:07:45,077 DIRECTION? 1764 01:07:45,077 --> 01:07:46,812 WHAT WILL MOTIVATE THEM TO SPEND 1765 01:07:46,812 --> 01:07:49,314 MORE TIME WITH A PATIENT WHO 1766 01:07:49,314 --> 01:07:51,750 NEEDS THEIR ATTENTION AND WHO 1767 01:07:51,750 --> 01:07:52,718 NEEDS THEIR COMPASSION? 1768 01:07:52,718 --> 01:07:56,121 HOW DO WE GET TO THAT? 1769 01:07:56,121 --> 01:08:02,928 THIS IS ALL THE KIND OF THING 1770 01:08:02,928 --> 01:08:04,897 FOR WHICH 100,000 STUDIES SHOULD 1771 01:08:04,897 --> 01:08:06,331 BE DONE UNTIL WE FIND THE THINGS 1772 01:08:06,331 --> 01:08:11,436 THAT REALLY MAKE THE BIGGEST 1773 01:08:11,436 --> 01:08:12,738 DIFFERENCE. 1774 01:08:12,738 --> 01:08:14,773 IT MIGHT BE CLINICAL 1775 01:08:14,773 --> 01:08:17,976 EXPERIENTIAL THING, I'M NOT 1776 01:08:17,976 --> 01:08:18,443 SURE. 1777 01:08:18,443 --> 01:08:20,612 AGAIN, IT ALL REQUIRES 1778 01:08:20,612 --> 01:08:22,047 VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION. 1779 01:08:22,047 --> 01:08:24,449 I THINK SINCE THE CURRENT 1780 01:08:24,449 --> 01:08:25,250 ARRANGEMENTS CONTRIBUTE TO THE 1781 01:08:25,250 --> 01:08:27,319 PROBLEMS, CONTRIBUTE TO THE 1782 01:08:27,319 --> 01:08:29,421 DISPARITIES IN LIFE EXPECTANCY, 1783 01:08:29,421 --> 01:08:30,823 YES, OF COURSE THERE'S OTHER 1784 01:08:30,823 --> 01:08:31,924 THINGS BESIDES MEDICAL CARE. 1785 01:08:31,924 --> 01:08:35,961 BUT IN THE FACE OF ALL THAT, I'M 1786 01:08:35,961 --> 01:08:37,396 SITTING AT 91st STREET IN 1787 01:08:37,396 --> 01:08:37,729 MANHATTAN. 1788 01:08:37,729 --> 01:08:41,567 GO 30 BLOCKS NORTH AND PEOPLE 1789 01:08:41,567 --> 01:08:43,535 ARE LIVING 15 YEARS LESS. 1790 01:08:43,535 --> 01:08:44,403 THAT'S NOT OKAY. 1791 01:08:44,403 --> 01:08:47,472 THERE SHOULD BE FAR MORE 1792 01:08:47,472 --> 01:08:48,774 RESOURCES THAN THERE ARE TO 1793 01:08:48,774 --> 01:08:53,812 PEOPLE IN MY BUILDING AND MY 1794 01:08:53,812 --> 01:08:54,146 NEIGHBORHOOD. 1795 01:08:54,146 --> 01:08:58,083 AND IT WILL REQUIRE A VERY 1796 01:08:58,083 --> 01:09:00,052 DIFFERENT MINDSET FOR THE 1797 01:09:00,052 --> 01:09:01,920 PRACTITIONERS, AND ULTIMATELY 1798 01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:02,988 FOR THE HEALTH SYSTEMS TO TREAT 1799 01:09:02,988 --> 01:09:06,291 IT IN A DIFFERENT KIND OF WAY 1800 01:09:06,291 --> 01:09:06,792 TOO. 1801 01:09:06,792 --> 01:09:09,695 SO THE CURRICULUM, YES, THE 1802 01:09:09,695 --> 01:09:10,662 CURRICULUM NEEDS TO CHANGE. 1803 01:09:10,662 --> 01:09:13,498 THE CONTENT OF THE CURRICULUM. 1804 01:09:13,498 --> 01:09:16,235 I THINK THE SCIENCE BASIS, THE 1805 01:09:16,235 --> 01:09:19,104 FACT THAT STUDENTS TEND TO GET A 1806 01:09:19,104 --> 01:09:23,141 TASK EVERY TWO WEEKS OR SO -- A 1807 01:09:23,141 --> 01:09:28,547 TEST EVERY TWO WEEKS OR SO, 1808 01:09:28,547 --> 01:09:30,782 RAT-TAT-TAT THE WHOLE TIME. 1809 01:09:30,782 --> 01:09:35,954 THEY WILL HAVE THEIR DOCTORING 1810 01:09:35,954 --> 01:09:37,589 CURRICULUM OR THEIR SOCIAL 1811 01:09:37,589 --> 01:09:39,892 MEDICINE COURSE WHICH IS NOT 1812 01:09:39,892 --> 01:09:42,294 GREAT GRADED THE SAME WAY WHICH 1813 01:09:42,294 --> 01:09:43,061 DOESN'T AFFECT INTERNSHIP 1814 01:09:43,061 --> 01:09:44,596 APPLICATIONS THAT HAS VERY 1815 01:09:44,596 --> 01:09:45,464 LITTLE IMPACT. 1816 01:09:45,464 --> 01:09:48,433 ALL OF THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE. 1817 01:09:48,433 --> 01:09:50,235 IT'S A DIFFERENT THING THAT 1818 01:09:50,235 --> 01:09:51,970 NEEDS TO HAPPEN, I THINK. 1819 01:09:51,970 --> 01:09:53,472 YES, IT'S NOT GOING TO BE EASY 1820 01:09:53,472 --> 01:09:55,674 TO GET THERE. 1821 01:09:55,674 --> 01:09:58,844 BUT I THINK THE NIH COULD HELP 1822 01:09:58,844 --> 01:10:00,812 IF THEY REALLY DECIDED TO PUT 1823 01:10:00,812 --> 01:10:04,316 MONEY INTO TRYING TO IMPROVE 1824 01:10:04,316 --> 01:10:04,516 THESE. 1825 01:10:04,516 --> 01:10:04,983 >> ALL RIGHT. 1826 01:10:04,983 --> 01:10:09,121 LET ME TURN TO ANOTHER AUDIENCE 1827 01:10:09,121 --> 01:10:09,554 QUESTION. 1828 01:10:09,554 --> 01:10:11,857 DR. SHAPIRO, THANKING YOU FOR AN 1829 01:10:11,857 --> 01:10:12,958 ENLIGHTENING PRESENTATION. 1830 01:10:12,958 --> 01:10:15,360 WHAT KEY HURDLING BEYOND 1831 01:10:15,360 --> 01:10:18,530 POLITICS AND SUPERFICIAL 1832 01:10:18,530 --> 01:10:19,164 SOLUTIONS HAVE HINDERED 1833 01:10:19,164 --> 01:10:20,832 SUBSTANTIAL REFORM IN THE 1834 01:10:20,832 --> 01:10:21,934 AMERICAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, CAN 1835 01:10:21,934 --> 01:10:23,902 WE LOOK TO SUCCESSFUL MODELS IN 1836 01:10:23,902 --> 01:10:31,109 OTHER COUNTRIES FOR 1837 01:10:31,109 --> 01:10:32,110 INSPIRATION? 1838 01:10:32,110 --> 01:10:34,046 IF SO WHICH COUNTRY IS A 1839 01:10:34,046 --> 01:10:38,684 PROMISING MODEL FOR REFORMING 1840 01:10:38,684 --> 01:10:39,284 AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM? 1841 01:10:39,284 --> 01:10:42,287 >> I DON'T KNOW THE MODEL 1842 01:10:42,287 --> 01:10:47,225 THATTEDS SHOULD BE A-- MODEL 1843 01:10:47,225 --> 01:10:51,630 THAT SHOULD BE ADOPTED. 1844 01:10:51,630 --> 01:11:02,174 ALMOST ALL WESTERNIZED SYSTEMS. 1845 01:11:04,509 --> 01:11:06,378 THERE ARE PROBLEMS IN CANADA, 1846 01:11:06,378 --> 01:11:07,913 THEY COULD EXPAND TO A LEVEL 1847 01:11:07,913 --> 01:11:11,783 THAT WOULD SOLVE PROBLEMS 1848 01:11:11,783 --> 01:11:13,685 WITHOUT COMING NEAR WHAT THE 1849 01:11:13,685 --> 01:11:16,321 U.S. IS WASTING ON U.S. HEALTH 1850 01:11:16,321 --> 01:11:16,555 CARE. 1851 01:11:16,555 --> 01:11:19,725 I WOULD POINT TO THAT. 1852 01:11:19,725 --> 01:11:22,260 THERE ARE ISSUES BEYOND THE 1853 01:11:22,260 --> 01:11:24,196 ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL, AND SOME 1854 01:11:24,196 --> 01:11:25,764 IS REFLECTED IN PEOPLE'S VALUES 1855 01:11:25,764 --> 01:11:27,099 AND NEEDS AND EXPECTATIONS. 1856 01:11:27,099 --> 01:11:30,602 YOU ARE KNOW, THE PATIENTS WHO 1857 01:11:30,602 --> 01:11:34,072 CONTINUALLY DEMAND CARE AND 1858 01:11:34,072 --> 01:11:35,273 SERVICE AND TESTS, BECAUSE THEY 1859 01:11:35,273 --> 01:11:38,010 CAN'T DEAL WITH THE FACT THAT 1860 01:11:38,010 --> 01:11:39,544 GRANDMA IS DYING OR THEY ARE 1861 01:11:39,544 --> 01:11:42,414 ANXIOUS OR THEY ARE DEPRESSED 1862 01:11:42,414 --> 01:11:43,715 AND THEY WON'T -- AREN'T ABLE TO 1863 01:11:43,715 --> 01:11:45,617 GET THE CARE THEY NEED FOR THAT, 1864 01:11:45,617 --> 01:11:48,186 OR THEY ARE NOT PREPARED TO 1865 01:11:48,186 --> 01:11:48,954 CONFRONT THAT. 1866 01:11:48,954 --> 01:11:53,025 THE PEOPLE WHO GO INTO MEDICINE 1867 01:11:53,025 --> 01:11:55,560 AND HAVE PERSONAL PROBLEMS, YOU 1868 01:11:55,560 --> 01:11:59,798 KNOW, THAT MAKE THEM 1869 01:11:59,798 --> 01:12:01,366 UNCOMFORTABLE DEALING WITH 1870 01:12:01,366 --> 01:12:04,936 PATIENTS WHO HAVE INTENSE 1871 01:12:04,936 --> 01:12:06,505 PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS, I HAD AN 1872 01:12:06,505 --> 01:12:09,441 EXPERIENCE, A RATHER INTERESTING 1873 01:12:09,441 --> 01:12:10,976 ONE. 1874 01:12:10,976 --> 01:12:15,347 WE HAD A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR ON 1875 01:12:15,347 --> 01:12:16,648 SERVICE WHO DIED, AND I CAME 1876 01:12:16,648 --> 01:12:18,283 INTO ROUNDS THE NEXT DAY, HEARD 1877 01:12:18,283 --> 01:12:19,284 ABOUT IT. 1878 01:12:19,284 --> 01:12:20,719 NO ONE WAS TALKING ABOUT HER. 1879 01:12:20,719 --> 01:12:23,021 I NOTICE SHE'S NOT ON THE LIST. 1880 01:12:23,021 --> 01:12:24,523 SOMEONE SAID, SHE CODED. 1881 01:12:24,523 --> 01:12:26,291 WELL, SHE WAS NOT CODED. 1882 01:12:26,291 --> 01:12:27,159 SHE DIED. 1883 01:12:27,159 --> 01:12:29,361 IT WASN'T TO BE RESUSCITATED. 1884 01:12:29,361 --> 01:12:30,996 I SAID LET'S TALK ABOUT HER AND 1885 01:12:30,996 --> 01:12:33,098 HER EXPERIENCE A LITTLE BIT AND 1886 01:12:33,098 --> 01:12:34,833 TALK ABOUT DEATH AND DYING. 1887 01:12:34,833 --> 01:12:36,268 SO WE DID THAT. 1888 01:12:36,268 --> 01:12:37,669 PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT THEIR 1889 01:12:37,669 --> 01:12:38,036 EXPERIENCES. 1890 01:12:38,036 --> 01:12:39,104 WE TALKED ABOUT HER. 1891 01:12:39,104 --> 01:12:41,940 AND THEN I PULLED OUT SOME POEMS 1892 01:12:41,940 --> 01:12:43,708 FOR PEOPLE TO READ ABOUT DEATH 1893 01:12:43,708 --> 01:12:46,445 AND DYING. 1894 01:12:46,445 --> 01:12:47,412 SOME FAMOUS STUFF. 1895 01:12:47,412 --> 01:12:49,481 AND ASKED EACH TO READ A POEM, I 1896 01:12:49,481 --> 01:12:50,682 READ A POEM. 1897 01:12:50,682 --> 01:12:52,350 WHEN READING MINE TEARS WERE 1898 01:12:52,350 --> 01:12:56,088 STREAMING DOWN MY CHEEK. 1899 01:12:56,088 --> 01:12:57,722 I WAS CRYING. 1900 01:12:57,722 --> 01:12:59,191 AND AFTERWARDS THE RESIDENT TOLD 1901 01:12:59,191 --> 01:13:01,793 ME THE STUDENTS HAD COME OVER 1902 01:13:01,793 --> 01:13:05,063 AND ASKED IF I HAD A COLD. 1903 01:13:05,063 --> 01:13:08,366 THAT IT WASN'T SEEN AS BEING 1904 01:13:08,366 --> 01:13:10,969 OKAY TO EMBRACE THE EMOTIONALITY 1905 01:13:10,969 --> 01:13:13,405 OF DEATH, OF DYING, OF HUMAN 1906 01:13:13,405 --> 01:13:13,705 EXPERIENCE. 1907 01:13:13,705 --> 01:13:16,041 AND I THINK ALL OF THIS NEEDS TO 1908 01:13:16,041 --> 01:13:17,109 BE ADDRESSED TOO IF PEOPLE ARE 1909 01:13:17,109 --> 01:13:20,745 GOING TO GET THE CARE THEY NEED 1910 01:13:20,745 --> 01:13:21,947 AND TRUST DOCTORS AND THE 1911 01:13:21,947 --> 01:13:24,349 SYSTEM. 1912 01:13:24,349 --> 01:13:25,217 1913 01:13:25,217 --> 01:13:27,686 >> LET ME TURN TO KATRINA. 1914 01:13:27,686 --> 01:13:33,391 >> YEAH, I WANT TO ALSO GIVE AN 1915 01:13:33,391 --> 01:13:36,361 AUDIENCE QUESTION. 1916 01:13:36,361 --> 01:13:38,663 SO, HE UNCOURAGED NIH TO FUND 1917 01:13:38,663 --> 01:13:39,598 MORE POPULATION STUDIES. 1918 01:13:39,598 --> 01:13:41,066 WHO IN AN INSTITUTE MAKES THAT 1919 01:13:41,066 --> 01:13:43,502 DECISION AND HOW CAN WE 1920 01:13:43,502 --> 01:13:45,337 INFLUENCE THAT PERSON OR GROUP 1921 01:13:45,337 --> 01:13:46,872 TO FUND IN THAT DIRECTION? 1922 01:13:46,872 --> 01:13:52,677 I WANT TO ADD MY OWN QUESTION, 1923 01:13:52,677 --> 01:13:57,182 WHICH IS, PART OF WHAT YOU WERE 1924 01:13:57,182 --> 01:13:59,251 CONCERNED ABOUT WITH SCIENTISTS 1925 01:13:59,251 --> 01:14:01,219 IS THAT WE LOBBY AND ADVOCATE 1926 01:14:01,219 --> 01:14:03,955 FOR OUR AREAS OF SCIENCE, SO IF 1927 01:14:03,955 --> 01:14:05,924 WE ARE HEALTH SERVICES 1928 01:14:05,924 --> 01:14:08,226 RESEARCHERS, ARE WE NOT GUILTY 1929 01:14:08,226 --> 01:14:11,296 OF THE SAME THING THAT OTHER 1930 01:14:11,296 --> 01:14:14,132 SCIENTISTS ARE DOING IF WE'RE 1931 01:14:14,132 --> 01:14:15,901 ADVOCATING FOR MORE OF THE KINDS 1932 01:14:15,901 --> 01:14:18,136 OF WORK THAT WE DO? 1933 01:14:18,136 --> 01:14:25,210 >> THEY ARE BETTER AT IT THAN 1934 01:14:25,210 --> 01:14:26,444 YOU ARE, CLEARLY. 1935 01:14:26,444 --> 01:14:27,946 WHO WITHIN AN INSTITUTE? 1936 01:14:27,946 --> 01:14:29,915 WELL, I TOLD YOU ABOUT HE WHO 1937 01:14:29,915 --> 01:14:32,984 MUST NOT BE NAMED WHO DIDN'T 1938 01:14:32,984 --> 01:14:34,419 THINK THAT OUTCOMES RESEARCH IN 1939 01:14:34,419 --> 01:14:39,991 HIV WAS IN THE MANDATE OF THE 1940 01:14:39,991 --> 01:14:40,825 NIAID. 1941 01:14:40,825 --> 01:14:42,727 PRESUMABLY, AT THAT LEVEL, THERE 1942 01:14:42,727 --> 01:14:44,696 IS SOME PRIORITIZATION THAT CAN 1943 01:14:44,696 --> 01:14:45,130 BE SHAPED. 1944 01:14:45,130 --> 01:14:46,798 BUT I THINK THERE'S ALSO THE 1945 01:14:46,798 --> 01:14:50,735 ISSUE ABOUT THE RELATIVE BUDGETS 1946 01:14:50,735 --> 01:14:51,436 OF INSTITUTES. 1947 01:14:51,436 --> 01:14:53,672 AND THERE ARE A NUMBER OF 1948 01:14:53,672 --> 01:14:55,340 INSTITUTES THAT SHOW INTEREST IN 1949 01:14:55,340 --> 01:14:56,741 THIS KIND OF WORK. 1950 01:14:56,741 --> 01:14:59,511 THE OPPOSITE THING, BY THE WAY, 1951 01:14:59,511 --> 01:15:00,912 WAS DIRECTOR OF NIMH DECIDING 1952 01:15:00,912 --> 01:15:03,148 ALL HE WANTED TO SUPPORT WAS 1953 01:15:03,148 --> 01:15:04,749 BASIC SCIENCE AND CLINICAL 1954 01:15:04,749 --> 01:15:04,983 TRIALS. 1955 01:15:04,983 --> 01:15:06,718 SO CLEARLY SOME OF THAT OCCURS 1956 01:15:06,718 --> 01:15:09,454 THERE BUT IT'S THE ABSOLUTE 1957 01:15:09,454 --> 01:15:10,655 LEVEL OF SUPPORT FOR DIFFERENT 1958 01:15:10,655 --> 01:15:16,027 KINDS OF WORK FOR DIFFERENT 1959 01:15:16,027 --> 01:15:21,066 KINDS OF -- WITHIN THE 1960 01:15:21,066 --> 01:15:22,934 INSTITUTES, AND I THINK IT 1961 01:15:22,934 --> 01:15:24,002 OPPORTUNITIES WITH SMALL 1962 01:15:24,002 --> 01:15:24,569 BUDGETS, THREE, FOUR, FIVE 1963 01:15:24,569 --> 01:15:28,473 HUNDRED MILLION A YEAR 1964 01:15:28,473 --> 01:15:30,141 INSTITUTES, THEY ARE HONORABLE 1965 01:15:30,141 --> 01:15:30,442 AND WORTHY. 1966 01:15:30,442 --> 01:15:33,745 THEY OUGHT TO BE ON THE SAME 1967 01:15:33,745 --> 01:15:35,680 FOOTING AS THE -- YOU KNOW, 1968 01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:36,815 NINDS WITH ITS $2 BILLION THAT 1969 01:15:36,815 --> 01:15:39,684 DOESN'T DO ANY OF THIS RESEARCH 1970 01:15:39,684 --> 01:15:41,519 AND SO ON. 1971 01:15:41,519 --> 01:15:44,155 SO, YES, LEADERSHIP WITHIN 1972 01:15:44,155 --> 01:15:44,456 INSTITUTES. 1973 01:15:44,456 --> 01:15:46,224 PART OF IT OF COURSE DEPENDS WHO 1974 01:15:46,224 --> 01:15:50,829 YOU APPOINT AS DIRECTOR OF BE A 1975 01:15:50,829 --> 01:15:51,363 INSTITUTE. 1976 01:15:51,363 --> 01:15:52,931 I SUSPECT THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE 1977 01:15:52,931 --> 01:15:54,766 ON THIS CALL WHO KNOW A LOT MORE 1978 01:15:54,766 --> 01:15:57,402 ABOUT WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO MOVE 1979 01:15:57,402 --> 01:15:59,271 MONEY AROUND WITHIN THE NIH 1980 01:15:59,271 --> 01:16:01,473 BUDGET. 1981 01:16:01,473 --> 01:16:02,774 1982 01:16:02,774 --> 01:16:04,743 >> THANK YOU, MARTIN. 1983 01:16:04,743 --> 01:16:08,913 THERE HAS BEEN I WOULD ALMOST 1984 01:16:08,913 --> 01:16:12,717 SAY A GENERATIONAL TRANSITION OF 1985 01:16:12,717 --> 01:16:13,585 INSTITUTE DIRECTORS WHERE YOU DO 1986 01:16:13,585 --> 01:16:16,121 HAVE A GROUP NOW THAT IS 1987 01:16:16,121 --> 01:16:17,522 PRIMARILY COMING FROM A 1988 01:16:17,522 --> 01:16:21,926 DIFFERENT SET OF DISCIPLINES AND 1989 01:16:21,926 --> 01:16:26,064 BACKGROUNDS ACROSS THE NIH. 1990 01:16:26,064 --> 01:16:28,333 SO, I'M SITTING HERE, EIGHT-PLUS 1991 01:16:28,333 --> 01:16:30,001 YEARS SINCE ARRIVING, I'M THE 1992 01:16:30,001 --> 01:16:30,769 MIDDLE OF EXPERIENCES. 1993 01:16:30,769 --> 01:16:33,071 YOU CAN GET A FLAVOR THAT PEOPLE 1994 01:16:33,071 --> 01:16:38,543 DO TURN OVER AND THERE HAVE BEEN 1995 01:16:38,543 --> 01:16:39,444 TRANSITIONS. 1996 01:16:39,444 --> 01:16:41,479 SO I REMAIN ETERNALLY OPTIMISTIC 1997 01:16:41,479 --> 01:16:43,715 THESE THINGS WILL GRADUALLY 1998 01:16:43,715 --> 01:16:44,649 CONTINUE TO CHANGE. 1999 01:16:44,649 --> 01:16:47,686 LET ME ADD ANOTHER QUESTION FROM 2000 01:16:47,686 --> 01:16:47,952 AUDIENCE. 2001 01:16:47,952 --> 01:16:51,323 IN WHAT WAYS CAN WE FOCUS ON 2002 01:16:51,323 --> 01:16:53,091 PRODUCING EVIDENCE NEEDED TO 2003 01:16:53,091 --> 01:16:56,061 OPTIMIZE POPULATION HEALTH AND 2004 01:16:56,061 --> 01:16:57,696 NOT JUST INDIVIDUAL 2005 01:16:57,696 --> 01:17:02,734 PATIENT-LEVEL HEALTH? 2006 01:17:02,734 --> 01:17:10,041 >> WELL, I THINK STUDIES IN A 2007 01:17:10,041 --> 01:17:12,477 LOOK AT POPULATIONS, YOU KNOW, 2008 01:17:12,477 --> 01:17:15,180 COULD BE REALLY HELPFUL. 2009 01:17:15,180 --> 01:17:17,315 YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T ALWAYS DO A 2010 01:17:17,315 --> 01:17:18,516 PROJECT LIKE THE HIV STUDY THAT 2011 01:17:18,516 --> 01:17:26,825 I GOT TO DO, $25 MILLION OR SO. 2012 01:17:26,825 --> 01:17:30,028 BUT BY STUDYING A REPRESENTATIVE 2013 01:17:30,028 --> 01:17:31,529 POPULATION WITH AN IMPORTANT 2014 01:17:31,529 --> 01:17:33,064 DISEASE, NOT JUST LOOKING AT 2015 01:17:33,064 --> 01:17:35,033 MEDICAL RECORDS BUT ACTUALLY 2016 01:17:35,033 --> 01:17:38,336 TALKING TO PEOPLE AND SO ON, 2017 01:17:38,336 --> 01:17:39,971 PRODUCED EVIDENCE OF WHERE SOME 2018 01:17:39,971 --> 01:17:43,775 OF THE PROBLEMS WERE. 2019 01:17:43,775 --> 01:17:46,644 AND I THINK LOTS OF STUDIES LIKE 2020 01:17:46,644 --> 01:17:53,618 THAT COULD BE DONE OF LOTS OF 2021 01:17:53,618 --> 01:17:54,419 THINGS. 2022 01:17:54,419 --> 01:17:56,254 WHY AREN'T PEOPLE GETTING 2023 01:17:56,254 --> 01:17:57,122 BETTER -- GETTING DIABETES 2024 01:17:57,122 --> 01:18:00,625 BETTER CONTROLLED ON A 2025 01:18:00,625 --> 01:18:02,026 POPULATION LEVEL? 2026 01:18:02,026 --> 01:18:06,231 WHY ARE 16,000 PEOPLE STILL 2027 01:18:06,231 --> 01:18:09,300 DYING EVERY YEAR OR 14,000 OF 2028 01:18:09,300 --> 01:18:11,503 HEPATITIS C? 2029 01:18:11,503 --> 01:18:15,974 WHY ARE SO MANY KIDS IN POOR 2030 01:18:15,974 --> 01:18:19,477 COMMUNITIES WITH ASTHMA ENDING 2031 01:18:19,477 --> 01:18:20,678 UP HOSPITALIZED? 2032 01:18:20,678 --> 01:18:22,080 AND SO ON. 2033 01:18:22,080 --> 01:18:24,282 THAT COLLECTING DATA AT A 2034 01:18:24,282 --> 01:18:26,284 POPULATION LEVEL CAN BE 2035 01:18:26,284 --> 01:18:28,353 COMPELLING, YOU KNOW? 2036 01:18:28,353 --> 01:18:30,321 THE USUAL NIH GRANT WHERE YOU 2037 01:18:30,321 --> 01:18:34,626 CAN HAVE UP TO, YOU KNOW, 2038 01:18:34,626 --> 01:18:36,995 $500,000 A YEAR TOTAL, WELL, 2039 01:18:36,995 --> 01:18:39,297 DIRECT COSTS, TO DO A STUDY, YOU 2040 01:18:39,297 --> 01:18:40,698 CAN DO DECENT STUDIES BUT THEY 2041 01:18:40,698 --> 01:18:45,003 ARE NOT GOING TO PRODUCE 2042 01:18:45,003 --> 01:18:45,637 REPRESENTATIVE POPULATION-BASED 2043 01:18:45,637 --> 01:18:46,037 DATA. 2044 01:18:46,037 --> 01:18:51,976 SO I WOULD THINK TAKING ON BIG 2045 01:18:51,976 --> 01:18:53,411 PROBLEMS IN THAT KIND OF A WAY 2046 01:18:53,411 --> 01:18:57,682 WOULD BE A GOOD THING. 2047 01:18:57,682 --> 01:18:58,450 >> OKAY. 2048 01:18:58,450 --> 01:19:00,084 LET ME TURN TO MONICA. 2049 01:19:00,084 --> 01:19:02,086 WE'RE DOWN TO THE LAST TEN 2050 01:19:02,086 --> 01:19:04,689 MINUTES OR SO. 2051 01:19:04,689 --> 01:19:07,625 2052 01:19:07,625 --> 01:19:09,394 >> I MEAN, I THINK AS I'M TRYING 2053 01:19:09,394 --> 01:19:11,529 TO THINK ABOUT ALL THIS, IT IS 2054 01:19:11,529 --> 01:19:14,199 AS ELISEO SAID IN THE BEGINNING 2055 01:19:14,199 --> 01:19:15,733 JUST PRETTY DAUNTING. 2056 01:19:15,733 --> 01:19:17,602 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WANT TO 2057 01:19:17,602 --> 01:19:20,972 ASK I GUESS ABOUT LASTLY IS 2058 01:19:20,972 --> 01:19:22,841 DURING THE PANDEMIC EXPERIENCE, 2059 01:19:22,841 --> 01:19:24,042 THERE WAS A NEED, IT WAS CLEAR 2060 01:19:24,042 --> 01:19:26,778 THERE WAS A NEED FOR HEALTH 2061 01:19:26,778 --> 01:19:29,414 SYSTEMS AND PEOPLE WHO WORK IN 2062 01:19:29,414 --> 01:19:31,349 HEALTH CARE, AND THE PUBLIC 2063 01:19:31,349 --> 01:19:35,320 HEALTH SECTOR TO BE WORKING 2064 01:19:35,320 --> 01:19:36,721 TOGETHER IN THIS COUNTRY AND 2065 01:19:36,721 --> 01:19:37,922 PROBABLY IN OTHERS. 2066 01:19:37,922 --> 01:19:39,791 BUT I GUESS THINKING ABOUT THIS 2067 01:19:39,791 --> 01:19:41,793 COUNTRY SPECIFICALLY. 2068 01:19:41,793 --> 01:19:42,961 AND EVEN SOME DISCUSSION, YOU 2069 01:19:42,961 --> 01:19:46,464 KNOW, ABOUT THE THINGS THAT NIH 2070 01:19:46,464 --> 01:19:48,199 SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON, MORE IN A 2071 01:19:48,199 --> 01:19:48,967 PUBLIC HEALTH DOMAIN. 2072 01:19:48,967 --> 01:19:51,603 WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT HOW 2073 01:19:51,603 --> 01:19:52,570 PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE 2074 01:19:52,570 --> 01:19:54,672 SYSTEMS AND HEALTH CARE 2075 01:19:54,672 --> 01:19:55,874 CLINICIANS CAN BE MORE 2076 01:19:55,874 --> 01:19:57,408 INTEGRATED GOING FORWARD USING 2077 01:19:57,408 --> 01:20:02,847 LESSONS LEARNED IN THAT 2078 01:20:02,847 --> 01:20:03,848 EXPERIENCE TO IMPROVE HEALTH 2079 01:20:03,848 --> 01:20:06,584 CARE TO POPULATIONS AS WELL AS 2080 01:20:06,584 --> 01:20:11,422 OUTCOMES AND FOR ADDRESSING 2081 01:20:11,422 --> 01:20:11,623 GAPS? 2082 01:20:11,623 --> 01:20:13,157 >> WELL, HEALTH SYSTEMS FEEL 2083 01:20:13,157 --> 01:20:15,026 LIKE THEY NEED TO RESPOND TO THE 2084 01:20:15,026 --> 01:20:17,962 FRESHES ON THEM. 2085 01:20:17,962 --> 01:20:18,630 PRESSURES ON THEM. 2086 01:20:18,630 --> 01:20:21,332 LOOK AT NEW YORK OR L.A. 2087 01:20:21,332 --> 01:20:25,169 I REMEMBER IN L.A., UCLA AND 2088 01:20:25,169 --> 01:20:28,039 CEDARS-SINAI, AND A COUPLE OTHER 2089 01:20:28,039 --> 01:20:29,140 BIG SYSTEMS WERE SCRAMBLING FOR 2090 01:20:29,140 --> 01:20:30,875 MARKET SHARE. 2091 01:20:30,875 --> 01:20:33,077 I REMEMBER THINKING THAT THEIR 2092 01:20:33,077 --> 01:20:35,280 ATTITUDE TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER WAS 2093 01:20:35,280 --> 01:20:37,348 SOMETHING LIKE THE EXPERIENCE OF 2094 01:20:37,348 --> 01:20:43,688 THE PRESIDENT IN THE MOVIE 2095 01:20:43,688 --> 01:20:44,822 "INDEPENDENCE DAY IMTS" TALKING 2096 01:20:44,822 --> 01:20:49,961 TO THE ALIEN, WHAT DO YOU WANT 2097 01:20:49,961 --> 01:20:51,496 US TO DO? 2098 01:20:51,496 --> 01:20:53,131 DIE. 2099 01:20:53,131 --> 01:20:55,433 SYSTEMS WANT TO INCREASE MARKET 2100 01:20:55,433 --> 01:20:57,168 SHARE AND REVENUE, AND SO IT 2101 01:20:57,168 --> 01:20:57,502 GOES. 2102 01:20:57,502 --> 01:21:03,308 AND THEY ACT IN WAYS THAT ARE 2103 01:21:03,308 --> 01:21:08,413 CONSISTENT WITH THIS APPARENT 2104 01:21:08,413 --> 01:21:09,948 REQUISITE, AND ROSEMARY STEVENS 2105 01:21:09,948 --> 01:21:14,552 WROTE A GOOD BOOK ABOUT 2106 01:21:14,552 --> 01:21:16,087 HOSPITALS, DEVELOPMENT OF 2107 01:21:16,087 --> 01:21:17,188 HOSPITALS TOWARDS WANTING TO 2108 01:21:17,188 --> 01:21:19,057 EXPAND, EXPAND AND GROW AND 2109 01:21:19,057 --> 01:21:24,195 GROW, OF COURSE BEING ABLE TO 2110 01:21:24,195 --> 01:21:26,064 BUILD THEIR MORTGAGE COST, 2111 01:21:26,064 --> 01:21:28,299 ESSENTIALLY, INTO THEIR MEDICARE 2112 01:21:28,299 --> 01:21:28,499 RATES. 2113 01:21:28,499 --> 01:21:29,567 WHAT HAVE YOU. 2114 01:21:29,567 --> 01:21:31,436 THAT I THINK THERE ARE 2115 01:21:31,436 --> 01:21:32,303 STRUCTURAL THINGS THAT 2116 01:21:32,303 --> 01:21:36,140 CONTRIBUTE TO THIS KIND OF 2117 01:21:36,140 --> 01:21:36,574 BEHAVIOR. 2118 01:21:36,574 --> 01:21:39,877 BUT, YOU KNOW, I WOULD LIKE TO 2119 01:21:39,877 --> 01:21:41,946 SEE THESE CEOS OF HOSPITAL WHO 2120 01:21:41,946 --> 01:21:44,682 PRESENT PROBLEMS, DEANS OF 2121 01:21:44,682 --> 01:21:46,017 MEDICAL SCHOOLS, EVEN THOUGH 2122 01:21:46,017 --> 01:21:47,719 THEY ARE MISGUIDED A LOT OF 2123 01:21:47,719 --> 01:21:49,520 TIME, THEY ARE NOT AS MUCH OF 2124 01:21:49,520 --> 01:21:51,689 THAT PART OF THE PROBLEM AS THE 2125 01:21:51,689 --> 01:21:54,225 CEOS ARE BUT THE CEOS HAVE A LOT 2126 01:21:54,225 --> 01:21:56,260 OF SAY OVER WHAT GETS DONE AND 2127 01:21:56,260 --> 01:22:00,565 WHAT GETS PRIORITIZED IN TERMS 2128 01:22:00,565 --> 01:22:02,100 OF CLINICAL PRACTICE. 2129 01:22:02,100 --> 01:22:04,202 AND CAN YOU REEDUCATE THEM? 2130 01:22:04,202 --> 01:22:06,170 NOW, BELLA'S BOOK I THOUGHT 2131 01:22:06,170 --> 01:22:06,938 WHICH WAS OTHERWISE BRILLIANT 2132 01:22:06,938 --> 01:22:10,008 BUT A LITTLE NAIVE IN THINKING 2133 01:22:10,008 --> 01:22:12,744 THEY COULD ACTUALLY CHANGE 2134 01:22:12,744 --> 01:22:14,479 CORPORATE BEHAVIOR BY, YOU KNOW, 2135 01:22:14,479 --> 01:22:16,881 THROUGH EDUCATION, I THINK 2136 01:22:16,881 --> 01:22:19,851 YOU'VE GOT TO CHANGE THE 2137 01:22:19,851 --> 01:22:20,318 INCENTIVES. 2138 01:22:20,318 --> 01:22:23,621 WHY SHOULD THE -- I MEAN TWO 2139 01:22:23,621 --> 01:22:26,190 CEOS IN NEW YORK CITY WHO IN THE 2140 01:22:26,190 --> 01:22:29,794 LAST YEAR FOR WHICH DATA WERE 2141 01:22:29,794 --> 01:22:33,564 AVAILABLE, THAT HAD TOTAL 2142 01:22:33,564 --> 01:22:37,235 COMPENSATION AROUND $12 MILLION. 2143 01:22:37,235 --> 01:22:39,170 AND MANY LEVELS OF EXECUTIVES 2144 01:22:39,170 --> 01:22:40,071 BELOW THAT EARNING A LOT OF 2145 01:22:40,071 --> 01:22:40,438 MONEY. 2146 01:22:40,438 --> 01:22:41,406 THEY WOULDN'T BE EARNING THAT 2147 01:22:41,406 --> 01:22:43,808 KIND OF MONEY IF THEY WEREN'T 2148 01:22:43,808 --> 01:22:44,909 GENERATING LARGE SURPLUSES. 2149 01:22:44,909 --> 01:22:49,514 SO GETTING THEM TO CHANGE THEIR 2150 01:22:49,514 --> 01:22:52,016 PRIORITIES TO REALLY FOCUS UPON 2151 01:22:52,016 --> 01:22:54,118 OPENING THEIR DOORS TO A BROAD 2152 01:22:54,118 --> 01:22:55,319 POPULATION, MANY OF WHOM ARE NOT 2153 01:22:55,319 --> 01:22:58,523 GOING TO PROVIDE THAT LEVEL OF 2154 01:22:58,523 --> 01:22:59,190 REIMBURSEMENT, TO PUTTING 2155 01:22:59,190 --> 01:23:00,658 CLINICS IN ALL PARTS OF THE 2156 01:23:00,658 --> 01:23:01,959 COMMUNITY, INCLUDING PARTS OF 2157 01:23:01,959 --> 01:23:03,261 THE COMMUNITY WHERE A LOT OF 2158 01:23:03,261 --> 01:23:07,832 PEOPLE DON'T HAVE GOOD 2159 01:23:07,832 --> 01:23:08,099 INSURANCE. 2160 01:23:08,099 --> 01:23:10,568 IT WOULD TAKE A SEA CHANGE, BUT 2161 01:23:10,568 --> 01:23:15,707 IT'S NOT TO SAY IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. 2162 01:23:15,707 --> 01:23:17,575 THERE WOULD HAVE TO BE POLICIES 2163 01:23:17,575 --> 01:23:18,776 AND DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN 2164 01:23:18,776 --> 01:23:22,146 LEADERSHIP THAT WOULD MAKE THAT 2165 01:23:22,146 --> 01:23:24,148 HAPPEN, I THINK. 2166 01:23:24,148 --> 01:23:26,651 >> LET ME TURN TO ANOTHER 2167 01:23:26,651 --> 01:23:28,519 QUESTION IN THE CHAT. 2168 01:23:28,519 --> 01:23:31,589 I'M CURIOUS TO HEAR MORE 2169 01:23:31,589 --> 01:23:34,659 THOUGHTS ABOUT INTEGRATIVE AND 2170 01:23:34,659 --> 01:23:35,693 COMPLEMENTARY INTEGRATIONS LIKE 2171 01:23:35,693 --> 01:23:38,596 YOGA TO SUPPORT MENTAL HEALTH, 2172 01:23:38,596 --> 01:23:40,131 WELL-BEING, LIFESTYLE CHOICES 2173 01:23:40,131 --> 01:23:42,200 AND OR SOCIAL HEALTH CHALLENGES 2174 01:23:42,200 --> 01:23:43,301 WHICH BURDEN THE MEDICAL SYSTEM 2175 01:23:43,301 --> 01:23:45,803 AND OFTEN HAVE POOR OUTCOME WHEN 2176 01:23:45,803 --> 01:23:48,773 TREATED BY PRIMARY CARE 2177 01:23:48,773 --> 01:23:49,874 PHYSICIANS. 2178 01:23:49,874 --> 01:23:50,241 AND MEDICATIONS. 2179 01:23:50,241 --> 01:23:51,743 AS A YOGA PROFESSION THERE ARE 2180 01:23:51,743 --> 01:23:53,144 MANY CONVERSATIONS ABOUT 2181 01:23:53,144 --> 01:23:55,246 INTEGRATING YOGA INTO HEALTH 2182 01:23:55,246 --> 01:23:55,546 CARE. 2183 01:23:55,546 --> 01:23:57,849 WHAT ARE YOUR WARNINGS OR 2184 01:23:57,849 --> 01:23:59,517 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR THIS WHEN 2185 01:23:59,517 --> 01:24:00,251 CONSIDERING ACCESS AND 2186 01:24:00,251 --> 01:24:02,453 POPULATION HEALTH OR WORKING TO 2187 01:24:02,453 --> 01:24:05,089 REDUCE NEGATIVE SOCIAL 2188 01:24:05,089 --> 01:24:07,391 DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH? 2189 01:24:07,391 --> 01:24:08,092 >> IT'S INTERESTING. 2190 01:24:08,092 --> 01:24:13,731 I THINK THESE SORTS OF 2191 01:24:13,731 --> 01:24:17,935 ALTERNATIVE THINGS, YOGA, TAI 2192 01:24:17,935 --> 01:24:20,738 CHI, SOME IN V.A. PROVIDE THESE 2193 01:24:20,738 --> 01:24:22,406 TO VETERANS WITH PTSD BECAUSE 2194 01:24:22,406 --> 01:24:24,876 IT'S AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM. 2195 01:24:24,876 --> 01:24:29,480 THE PROBLEM WITH ALMOST ALL OF 2196 01:24:29,480 --> 01:24:30,915 THE SYSTEMS THAT PEOPLE, WHERE 2197 01:24:30,915 --> 01:24:36,587 PEOPLE GET MEDICAL CARE THEY ARE 2198 01:24:36,587 --> 01:24:38,990 NOT INTEGRATED, AND IS THE 2199 01:24:38,990 --> 01:24:43,027 GENERAL MEDICINE CLINIC AT UCLA 2200 01:24:43,027 --> 01:24:49,167 OR UCSF OR CORNELL OR COLUMBIA 2201 01:24:49,167 --> 01:24:51,102 GOING TO HIRE A YOGA INSTRUCTOR 2202 01:24:51,102 --> 01:24:52,703 TO WORK WITH THEIR PATIENTS? 2203 01:24:52,703 --> 01:24:54,639 THEY MIGHT, BUT MAYBE THEY THINK 2204 01:24:54,639 --> 01:24:56,073 WELL, WHY DON'T WE INVEST THAT 2205 01:24:56,073 --> 01:24:57,475 IN A NURSE, RIGHT? 2206 01:24:57,475 --> 01:25:00,211 AND THE POINT IS THAT YOU CAN DO 2207 01:25:00,211 --> 01:25:02,113 ALL OF THESE THINGS IF YOU THINK 2208 01:25:02,113 --> 01:25:03,614 THAT THIS IS -- IF YOUR MISSION 2209 01:25:03,614 --> 01:25:06,450 IS TO HELP ALL OF THESE PEOPLE. 2210 01:25:06,450 --> 01:25:07,985 AND THE REALITY IS OF COURSE 2211 01:25:07,985 --> 01:25:09,854 THAT MANY OF THE AFFLUENT PEOPLE 2212 01:25:09,854 --> 01:25:17,328 THAT GET CARE IN THESE SYSTEMS 2213 01:25:17,328 --> 01:25:19,831 CAN GET YOGA OUTSIDE THE HEALTH 2214 01:25:19,831 --> 01:25:21,666 CARE SYSTEM AND OFTEN DO. 2215 01:25:21,666 --> 01:25:23,901 SOME IS AN ORGANIZATIONAL 2216 01:25:23,901 --> 01:25:27,271 QUESTION, HAVING AN ORGANIZATION 2217 01:25:27,271 --> 01:25:28,172 COMMITTED TO COMPREHENSIVELY 2218 01:25:28,172 --> 01:25:30,174 ADDRESSING THE WELL-BEING OF AN 2219 01:25:30,174 --> 01:25:31,242 ENTIRE POPULATION, AS I SAID, 2220 01:25:31,242 --> 01:25:32,543 THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO 2221 01:25:32,543 --> 01:25:36,247 COME TO MEDICAL CARE AND DEMAND 2222 01:25:36,247 --> 01:25:37,381 SERVICES, THEY DON'T REALLY 2223 01:25:37,381 --> 01:25:38,449 UNDERSTAND WHAT'S WRONG BUT 2224 01:25:38,449 --> 01:25:39,884 OFTEN THEY ARE DEPRESSED OR 2225 01:25:39,884 --> 01:25:41,285 ANXIOUS OR THEIR LIFE IS JUST 2226 01:25:41,285 --> 01:25:45,323 NOT GOING THE WAY IT SHOULD. 2227 01:25:45,323 --> 01:25:48,192 AND THOSE ARE PEOPLE WHO WOULD 2228 01:25:48,192 --> 01:25:49,961 BENEFIT FROM HAVING ACCESS TO 2229 01:25:49,961 --> 01:25:52,763 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES. 2230 01:25:52,763 --> 01:25:55,399 2231 01:25:55,399 --> 01:25:56,334 >> KATRINA? 2232 01:25:56,334 --> 01:25:59,570 >> YEAH, I WANTED TO ASK ANOTHER 2233 01:25:59,570 --> 01:26:07,111 AUDIENCE QUESTION OF HOW CAN 2234 01:26:07,111 --> 01:26:07,712 COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS 2235 01:26:07,712 --> 01:26:08,779 PLAY PIVOTAL ROLE TO PROLONG 2236 01:26:08,779 --> 01:26:10,948 QUALITY OF LIFE SO THINKING 2237 01:26:10,948 --> 01:26:13,050 ABOUT OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, 2238 01:26:13,050 --> 01:26:15,453 HEALTH SYSTEM AS A WHOLE, THAT 2239 01:26:15,453 --> 01:26:19,390 GOES BEYOND HEALTH CARE DELIVERY 2240 01:26:19,390 --> 01:26:24,762 SYSTEMS, AND REALLY BECOMES PART 2241 01:26:24,762 --> 01:26:25,329 OF POUR COMMUNITY. 2242 01:26:25,329 --> 01:26:29,233 >> OVER THREE TRILLION A YEAR, 2243 01:26:29,233 --> 01:26:30,902 MAYBE FOUR, THAT GOES INTO 2244 01:26:30,902 --> 01:26:32,970 HEALTH CARE, ALMOST NONE TO 2245 01:26:32,970 --> 01:26:34,138 COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS. 2246 01:26:34,138 --> 01:26:37,575 AND I REMEMBER ONE POINT WHERE 2247 01:26:37,575 --> 01:26:40,845 THEY WERE DISCUSSING AT UCLA 2248 01:26:40,845 --> 01:26:42,813 PUTTING CLINICS AROUND THE 2249 01:26:42,813 --> 01:26:44,916 VARIOUS PARTS OF THE LOS ANGELES 2250 01:26:44,916 --> 01:26:45,116 BASIN. 2251 01:26:45,116 --> 01:26:46,617 IT REALLY LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE 2252 01:26:46,617 --> 01:26:47,818 ONLY CERTAIN PARTS OF THE LOS 2253 01:26:47,818 --> 01:26:49,287 ANGELES BASIN WHERE THEY WERE 2254 01:26:49,287 --> 01:26:50,922 PUTTING THE CLINICS. 2255 01:26:50,922 --> 01:26:52,556 THEY WEREN'T PUTTING THEM IN 2256 01:26:52,556 --> 01:26:53,457 SOUTH CENTRAL OR EAST LOS 2257 01:26:53,457 --> 01:26:53,791 ANGELES. 2258 01:26:53,791 --> 01:26:55,526 I SAID WHAT ABOUT THE HISPANIC 2259 01:26:55,526 --> 01:26:56,327 AND BLACK PEOPLE? 2260 01:26:56,327 --> 01:26:58,262 WHO IS GOING TO TAKE CARE OF 2261 01:26:58,262 --> 01:26:58,496 THEM? 2262 01:26:58,496 --> 01:27:02,266 THE ANSWER I GOT WAS, OUR 2263 01:27:02,266 --> 01:27:03,401 AFFILIATES, MEANING THE PUBLIC 2264 01:27:03,401 --> 01:27:03,734 HOSPITALS. 2265 01:27:03,734 --> 01:27:05,603 THAT'S NOT AN OKAY ANSWER. 2266 01:27:05,603 --> 01:27:08,539 IT'S ALSO NOT OKAY TO SAY, WELL, 2267 01:27:08,539 --> 01:27:09,307 YOU COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS 2268 01:27:09,307 --> 01:27:10,741 SHOULD GO AND DO STUFF. 2269 01:27:10,741 --> 01:27:15,313 I THINK IF COMMUNITY 2270 01:27:15,313 --> 01:27:16,180 ORGANIZATIONS WERE FUNDED, 2271 01:27:16,180 --> 01:27:21,786 SOMETHING THAT EASILY COULD BE 2272 01:27:21,786 --> 01:27:24,288 STUDIED, ADEQUATELY, YOU KNOW, 2273 01:27:24,288 --> 01:27:27,658 TO HAVE PAID STAFF SUPPORTED BY 2274 01:27:27,658 --> 01:27:29,694 THE HEALTH BUDGET, THAT MIGHT 2275 01:27:29,694 --> 01:27:30,861 DECREASE OTHER MEDICAL COSTS. 2276 01:27:30,861 --> 01:27:33,397 OR EVEN IF IT DIDN'T DECREASE 2277 01:27:33,397 --> 01:27:35,399 COSTS IT MIGHT IMPROVE THE 2278 01:27:35,399 --> 01:27:36,567 HEALTH OF MANY PEOPLE. 2279 01:27:36,567 --> 01:27:40,304 SO I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA TO 2280 01:27:40,304 --> 01:27:41,372 HAVE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS 2281 01:27:41,372 --> 01:27:41,639 INVOLVED. 2282 01:27:41,639 --> 01:27:48,012 ONE CAVEAT I WOULD OFFER IS YOU 2283 01:27:48,012 --> 01:27:49,714 SHOULDN'T HAVE PEOPLE IN THE 2284 01:27:49,714 --> 01:27:52,016 COMMUNITY BEING THE ONLY PEOPLE 2285 01:27:52,016 --> 01:27:55,186 IN THE SYSTEM, AROUND THE 2286 01:27:55,186 --> 01:27:56,721 SYSTEM, WHO ARE CULTURALLY CLOSE 2287 01:27:56,721 --> 01:27:59,657 TO THE PATIENTS. 2288 01:27:59,657 --> 01:28:02,827 YOU DON'T WANT YOUR DOMINICANS 2289 01:28:02,827 --> 01:28:08,966 AND YOUR AFRICAN AMERICANS AND 2290 01:28:08,966 --> 01:28:10,634 OTHERS TO HAVE A COMMUNITY 2291 01:28:10,634 --> 01:28:13,771 WORKER OR PERSON WHO COMES TO 2292 01:28:13,771 --> 01:28:16,540 HELP THEM OUT, AND WHO HAS A 2293 01:28:16,540 --> 01:28:17,508 DOCTOR THEY CAN'T POSSIBLY 2294 01:28:17,508 --> 01:28:18,009 COMMUNICATE WITH. 2295 01:28:18,009 --> 01:28:19,710 THOSE ARE PROBLEMS THAT NEED TO 2296 01:28:19,710 --> 01:28:27,151 BE ADDRESSED IN PARALLEL. 2297 01:28:27,151 --> 01:28:28,152 >> OKAY. 2298 01:28:28,152 --> 01:28:29,887 WELL, I THINK WE'RE ABOUT TO RUN 2299 01:28:29,887 --> 01:28:31,322 OUT OF TIME. 2300 01:28:31,322 --> 01:28:35,659 SO I'M GOING TO BRING THIS TO A 2301 01:28:35,659 --> 01:28:36,460 CLOSE. 2302 01:28:36,460 --> 01:28:40,965 I THINK THIS HAS BEEN VERY 2303 01:28:40,965 --> 01:28:42,299 THOUGHT PROVOKING, MARTIN. 2304 01:28:42,299 --> 01:28:45,336 I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU TAKING 2305 01:28:45,336 --> 01:28:48,072 THE TIME TO PRESENT HERE AT NIH. 2306 01:28:48,072 --> 01:28:49,173 WE'LL FIND OUT ULTIMATELY HOW 2307 01:28:49,173 --> 01:28:50,941 MANY PEOPLE ACTUALLY TUNED IN, 2308 01:28:50,941 --> 01:28:53,110 I'M SURE WE HAD MANY MORE 2309 01:28:53,110 --> 01:28:56,847 QUESTIONS LINED UP THAT WE COULD 2310 01:28:56,847 --> 01:28:59,617 ASK BUT I ENJOYED THE 2311 01:28:59,617 --> 01:29:01,018 PERSPECTIVES THAT KATRINA AND 2312 01:29:01,018 --> 01:29:02,987 MONICA BROUGHT TO THE QUESTIONS, 2313 01:29:02,987 --> 01:29:05,423 TO THE CONVERSATION WITH YOU. 2314 01:29:05,423 --> 01:29:08,025 AND SO AGAIN I WANT TO EXPRESS 2315 01:29:08,025 --> 01:29:11,395 MY APPRECIATION FOR YOUR 2316 01:29:11,395 --> 01:29:14,165 PRESENTATION, TO OUR COMMUNITY, 2317 01:29:14,165 --> 01:29:17,435 AT NIMHD, AND NCI, AND THE 2318 01:29:17,435 --> 01:29:18,869 OUTCOMES AFFECTING RESEARCH 2319 01:29:18,869 --> 01:29:20,371 INTEREST GROUPS. 2320 01:29:20,371 --> 01:29:21,505 SO THANKS AGAIN, MARTIN. 2321 01:29:21,505 --> 01:29:22,807 >> WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 2322 01:29:22,807 --> 01:29:25,009 IT'S REALLY BEEN A PLEASURE AND 2323 01:29:25,009 --> 01:29:25,976 IT'S BEEN VERY STIMULATING 2324 01:29:25,976 --> 01:29:26,844 DISCUSSION FOR ME. 2325 01:29:26,844 --> 01:29:29,246 IF ANY OF YOU DO GET THE CHANCE 2326 01:29:29,246 --> 01:29:31,482 TO READ MY BOOK, THE PRESENT 2327 01:29:31,482 --> 01:29:38,656 ILLNESS, PUBLISHED BY JOHNS 2328 01:29:38,656 --> 01:29:41,192 HOPKINS, YOU CAN DISSECT MY 2329 01:29:41,192 --> 01:29:42,159 ANALYSIS AND PROPOSALS LINE BY 2330 01:29:42,159 --> 01:29:44,128 LINE AND COME UP WITH BETTER 2331 01:29:44,128 --> 01:29:44,562 IDEAS. 2332 01:29:44,562 --> 01:29:48,532 OR MAYBE AGREE WITH A FEW. 2333 01:29:48,532 --> 01:29:49,700 BUT IT'S BEEN WONDERFUL. 2334 01:29:49,700 --> 01:29:50,367 >> THANK YOU, MARTIN. 2335 01:29:50,367 --> 01:29:51,368 >> IT'S BEEN WONDERFUL TO TALK 2336 01:29:51,368 --> 01:29:52,603 TO YOU. 2337 01:29:52,603 --> 01:29:52,970 THANK YOU. 2338 01:29:52,970 --> 01:29:55,306 >> THANK YOU. 2339 01:29:55,306 --> 01:29:55,739 BYE-BYE. 2340 01:29:55,739 --> 01:29:56,006 TAKE CARE. 2341 01:29:56,006 --> 01:29:57,641 >> THANKS, EVERYONE. 2342 01:29:57,641 --> 01:30:07,641 BYE.