“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“You all have a universally fatal condition. It's called pre-death.”
— Ivan Oransky
Ivan Oransky: Are we over-medicalized?
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“Most [doctors] are in a fee-for-service system. They are incentivized to do more — procedures, tests, prescribe medications.”
— Ivan Oransky
Ivan Oransky: Are we over-medicalized?
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“[In medical school] I didn't have a course called How to Think Skeptically.”
— Ivan Oransky
Ivan Oransky: Are we over-medicalized?
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“Every year we're spending more than two trillion dollars on healthcare, and yet 100,000 people a year are dying not because of the conditions they have, but because of the treatments that we're giving them.”
— Ivan Oransky
Ivan Oransky: Are we over-medicalized?
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