Tincture

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“But, as several recent studies show, cancer is still surprising us.” — Kim Bellard https://t.co/QnQNaXpubN

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“This is not about care; this is not about patients. This is about money.” — Kim Bellard https://t.co/JROHswPOLH

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“So when I read that Google is starting to worry about a threat to its search dominance, and that TikTok and other social media giants are scared of a rival start-up, well, count me in. I just wish it was health care goliaths that were worried." https://t.co/mflBsS0sUL

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“That’s my fear about all of the supposed revolutions in healthcare: I’m pretty sure we’re not dreaming big enough, and we definitely aren’t moving quickly enough.” — Kim Bellard https://t.co/V8iMZmHmQY

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“We’re going to need to go fishing in the ocean to find those future medicines, and we’ll need to use eDNA.” — Kim Bellard https://t.co/VgT1m7r09v

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“Saying ‘no’ more often, and more strategically, allows us to focus on the things we must say ‘yes’ to.” — Kim Bellard https://t.co/lj1XOHKWpF

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“We’re a long way from clinical trials or FDA approved devices for tACS, so if someone tries to sell you a brain stimulation cap, it’d be wise to be skeptical.” — Kim Bellard https://t.co/tka46ZuIUT

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“Make fun of ‘TikTok hospitals’ all you want, pretend TikTok is just another Facebook or YouTube, and assume our healthcare system is going to evolve under our direction. Me, I suspect there’s going to be some ‘punctured equilibrium’ in…” — Kim Bellard https://t.co/TDQ0My7xHe

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“We say we value education. We say we love children. We say that nurses are angels. We’re think that we’re a caring people. We just don’t treat the people in the jobs that demonstrate those values as though those were true” — Kim Bellard https://t.co/mWMJc4RqnH

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“‘The future of computing is in fabrics.’”  https://t.co/QP4I9NDTrn

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“I’m convinced there is a healthcare system out there that is much cheaper, much more effective, much more convenient, and much more equitable. But continuing to graft on to our healthcare system’s existing edifices isn’t going to get us to that.”  https://t.co/Z8KMmgP0Dq

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“Physicians decry the diminution of their role, their loss of status, the amount of time spent on paperwork and administrative tasks. Fair enough; let’s put them in charge and see how they do. It’s hard to see that they could do much worse.” — Kim Bellard https://t.co/zK1lDHOk7M

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“The hard part about envisioning healthcare’s future is not predicting the technologies but in figuring out how we integrate them into our lives, and pay for them.” — Kim Bellard https://t.co/8GuDJrCoSv

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“But I thought I could at least try to reimagine what a Declaration of Independence might look like if it was aimed at the American healthcare system.” — Kim Bellard https://t.co/zxlrMHyk4E

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“There are going to be many fights about abortion in Congress and in the states, but I think it’s time for a new strategy. It’s time to amend the Constitution.” — Kim Bellard https://t.co/TElSgjH3y8

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“We need more urgent optimism about fixing healthcare.” — Kim Bellard https://t.co/8UINNRbj4p

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“So, no, until I see a concerted effort to take the best from the osteopathic and allopathic schools in order to develop a 21st approach to what a physician should be, I’m not going to take any purported healthcare reform seriously.” — Kim Bellard https://t.co/20axIhAYkm

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“No one designing a social retirement program in 2022 would structure it like Social Security; no one designing a health insurance program for seniors now would come up with anything that looked like Medicare; no one would who actually…” — Kim Bellard https://t.co/bfqJOOnnKx

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“Just because AI aren’t going to be human doesn’t mean they aren’t going to be doing things only humans once did, nor that we shouldn’t be figuring out how to treat them as persons.” — Kim Bellard https://t.co/JuJ0jDkVKo

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“Similarly, there are plenty of sightings to suggest that our healthcare system could be much better, but we’re going to need some true believers to make it so. Are you one of them?” — Kim Bellard https://t.co/InISYw1Ip8