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Keep taking the medicine

机译:继续吃药

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Health care in rich countries presents a paradox. On the one hand, advances in medicine are extending life and improving its quality-gains of great value to those who benefit from them. On the other hand, the evidence of error rates shows that hospitals and doctors routinely break the first rule of medicine, to do no harm. Widespread waste is evident, yet the costs of health care spiral ever upwards, causing increasing alarm among individuals, employers and taxpayers. Medical costs are so buoyant that all containment strategies seem doomed to eventual failure. The revelation that much health care is of poor quality poses some troubling questions for the medical profession in rich countries. "There has to be a shake-up in the medical world, led by the medical world," says Mr Bodaken of California's Blue Shield. Doctors have traditionally treasured their independence and resisted outside interference. But medical care is now delivered through expensive, com-plex systems that require sophisticated management to avoid errors, to ensure that patients get appropriate advice, tests and treatments, and to keep costs as low as possible. Doctors need to be able to work collaboratively in teams spanning professional boundaries. Medical education, still locked in an old-fashioned apprenticeship model, should prepare doctors for these new demands. Alain Enthoven of Stanford University says that teaching doctors how to deliver cost-effective care will re-quire a transformation in medical training.
机译:富裕国家的医疗保健存在悖论。一方面,医学的进步正在延长寿命,并提高从受益者那里获得的巨大价值。另一方面,错误率的证据表明,医院和医生常规地违反了第一药规则,不会造成伤害。浪费的蔓延是显而易见的,但是医疗保健的费用却在不断上升,这在个人,雇主和纳税人中引起了越来越多的警觉。医疗费用如此之高,以至于所有遏制策略都注定要失败。有关许多医疗保健质量差的报道,给富裕国家的医学界带来了一些令人困扰的问题。加州“蓝盾”的博达肯说:“在医学界的领导下,医学界必须进行彻底的改革。”传统上,医生珍视自己的独立性并抵制外界干扰。但是现在,医疗服务是通过昂贵的复杂系统提供的,该系统需要复杂的管理来避免错误,以确保患者获得适当的建议,测试和治疗,并尽可能降低成本。医生需要能够跨专业领域的团队进行协作。医学教育仍然处于老式的学徒制模式中,应该为医生应对这些新需求做好准备。斯坦福大学的阿兰·恩托芬(Alain Enthoven)说,教医生如何提供具有成本效益的护理将需要医学培训方面的转变。

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