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Great read, thanks. "The tasks of medical science fall into three buckets. One is understanding disease biology. One is finding effective therapies. And one is
by 7952 14y ago
Great read, thanks.
"The tasks of medical science fall into three buckets. One is understanding disease biology. One is finding effective therapies. And one is insuring those therapies are delivered effectively. That third bucket has been almost totally ignored by research funders, government, and academia."
- HarryHirsch 14y agoBucket 3 actually conflates public health and industrial safety. But one wonders where he got that idea from. There is ample research in public health, although perhaps not so much in the US, as a hospital or pharmco you cannot make money from it, and there is ample research on industrial safety as well. Airlines know a hell of the last thing - cockpit management, checklists, the works. I seem to remember Atul Gawande discussing this last item.