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Podcast: Relentless Health Value
Episode: Encore! EP176: Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care, When We Aren't, With Dr. Robert Pearl, Author and Former CEO of the Permanente Medical Group. Co-hosted by Stacey Richter and Alex Akers
Description: In this podcast originally published early last year, Alex Akers and I had a chance to speak with Dr. Robert Pearl about his book Mistreated: Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care—And Why We're Usually Wrong. Besides being an author, Dr. Pearl is former CEO of the Permanente Medical Group; he's a frequent keynote speaker; and he is also the host of a podcast called Fixing Healthcare. Here's what Dr. Pearl said at the recent HLTH conference in Vegas, and I'm editorializing a little bit here. Dr. Pearl said day after day, patients and their fam...