Here's part 3 of my interview with Dr. Anna Lembke where we discuss the fundamental problem with our current medical infrastructure and why things are the way they (currently) are.
Video transcript:
Dr. Anna Lembke:
The reason for that is that our medical infrastructure incentivizes prescribing pills, it's entirely designed for prescribing pills and doing procedures. And that is what doctors get paid to do. And that is what the medical infrastructure is designed to provide efficiently and effectively. Doctors don't get paid for teaching their patients about prevention. We don't get paid for doing psychotherapy. We don't get paid for mind, body work, or if we do get paid, we get paid a fraction of what, what we get paid for prescribing pills. And that is the fundamental problem. It's the perverse incentives inside of medicine that are driving it. And that are largely fed behind the scenes by the pharmaceutical industry and the device industry.
Dr. Patricia Halligan :
That is a really important point. And it's really sad. It's very dark.
Dr. Anna Lembke:
It's hard to change. Hard to change. Very entrenched all the way from our lobbyists in Washington to our local pharmacy.
For more information or to contact Anna Lembke, MD, please visit:
www.annalembke.com
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