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Podcast: Creating a New Healthcare
Episode: Episode #139: Customized healthcare that actually cares for seniors – with William Shrank MD, Senior Advisor & former Chief Medical Officer at Humana
Description: Friends,
Whether you’re 25 years old or 75 years old, when you walk into primary care providers’ offices in most places across the country, the care you’ll receive is pretty much the same. The people in the office are the same; the services are the same; the protocols are the same; the time slots you get are the same. Does that make sense to you? To state the obvious – a 65-year old, 75-year old and 85-year old have much different needs, concerns and issues to deal with than patients in a younger demographic. And yet, the healthcare seniors...