ReviewCureus2018
The United States Health Care System is Sick: From Adam Smith to Overspecialization.
Review in Cureus, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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4 citing papers in PubMed.
- Cost-Effectiveness of Humidified High-Flow Therapy (HHFT) for COPD Patients on Long-Term Oxygen Therapy.ClinicoEconomics and outcomes research : CEOR · 2023Article
- The Hidden Curriculum and Integrating Cure- and Care-Based Approaches to Medicine.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2022Article
- Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons From Global Surgery.Annals of surgery · 2020Article
- A call for unification: how to defragment the human brain, medical professions, and national strategies?Croatian medical journal · 2019Article
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Abstract
The United States (US) health care system is sick. High cost affects the nation and the people. The poor outcomes mainly impact the patients. If we do not fix it, the system will implode because of the unsustainable economic burden. The choice to shape the health care system on the "pin factory" model described by Adam Smith is the cause of the failure. The key players in the health care system are accordingly molded. Many factors tightly intertwined need to be addressed. Medical education, the role of family doctor, the overspecialization and, not least, the translation of discoveries into clinical practice are among them. The failure of the US health care system is a complex and multi-factorial issue which requires a global approach.
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