Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter presents a vision for a healthcare future that reduces reliance on narcotic pain prescriptions by adopting validated functional medicine approaches. He argues that collecting patient data and using functional-medicine care can improve health and lifespan, reduce dependence on insurance companies, and allow providers to deliver better value outside a cumbersome system.
Imagine a world not so distant future where we as providers no longer need to constantly fill prescriptions. Narcotic pain prescriptions are something that are the bane of a surgeon's existence and they're not good for our patients. We can provide patients with an improved health and lifespan based on a data that we can collect and that validated health approach of functional medicine and then reduce dependence on overreaching insurance companies and really maybe kind of take back the care of our patients and, and, and be able to offer value without being necessarily involved in this very cumbersome system where we all find ourselves.
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