Do We Have More of a "Sick Care" System Than a Healthcare System? (0:21)
Wellness and prevention have traditionally taken a back seat to sick care in our current healthcare system. In this video, HealthMaker Daniel Kelly, MD, explains why this trend needs to reverse to make real wellness progress.
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Our endpoints are all sick care. It's true for physicians. It's true for our research studies. There's a very few endpoints that are gauged at wellness, the other direction. And if you think what we just talked about, if we don't start moving in that other direction, then we have too much risk, and we will never get to prevention.
Daniel Kelly, MD, is senior vice president, Tavistock Distinguished Professor and scientific director of the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute at Lake Nona. He specializes in heart disease, metabolic Syndrome, obesity and diabetes.
