Ilana Yurkiewicz on the Broken State of American Healthcare

Searching for Medicine’s Soul

English - August 17, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 110 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
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In this episode of Searching for Medicine’s Soul, Aaron was joined by Dr. Ilana Yurkiewicz, a physician practicing oncology and internal medicine at Stanford University, published medical journalist, and author of Fragmented: A Doctor’s Quest to Piece Together American Health Care. Aaron and Ilana discuss how America’s healthcare system functions in a way that blocks physicians from possessing complete knowledge of a patient’s medical history, and the detrimental effects of physicians being partially blindfolded as they practice.