How the Healthcare System Compensates Physicians Is All Wrong

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 15, 2017

Robert Pearl, physician, executive director and CEO of The Permanente Medical Group and the author of Mistreated: Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care — And Why We're Usually Wrong  (PublicAffairs, 2017), talks about American healthcare and says the hunt for newer, better cures ignores the biggest problems.

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