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Index
Cover
Praise for Curable
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction: Is Health Care Fixable?
Chapter 1: A New System: The Irrational Human Mind and the First Few Who Recognized It
Are People Rational or Irrational?
Who Was Right? “Six Sigma”
“Esoteric Gibberish”
Chapter 2: How Health Care Became a “Culture of Inefficiency”
The Perfectionist
The Radical Mastectomy Begins
The Rise of the Clinical Trial
Measuring the Way Forward
The First “Well-Executed” Clinical Trial
Skeptics Emerge
“In God We Trust, All Others [Must] Have Data”
A Cowboy Culture
Extreme Variation and Extreme Overtreatment
Complexity
“The Whole System Is Cockamamie”
Chapter 3: How Simple and Effective Treatments Get Lost
“You Should Get Your Affairs in Order”
“Re-establishing the Balance of Nature”
“Pretty Close to Miraculous”
The Low-Hanging Fruit in Health Care
New Uses for Old Drugs
No One Seems to Give a Shit
Chapter 4: The Way Forward: “From Worst to First”
The Billy Beane of Health Care
The Fresh Food Farmacy
Chapter 5: Nature or Nurture: What Really Matters?
“Genes Are Not Our Destiny”
Epigenetics
Social Genomics
Cognitive Traps and the Pursuit of Happiness
A New Culture
The Future of Medicine
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
About the Author
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