Dr. Cory Goldberg argues that medicine treats disease too late. He trained in Canada and the US and watched healthcare celebrate diagnosis instead of prevention, waiting until patients had advanced cancers or late-stage illness. He calls for a shift toward earlier, preventative care.
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I realized that the healthcare system that I was working in, and that was true, you know, both during my training in Canada and in the United States, it really— it felt me— it left me feeling like something was missing. You know, we really seemed to be managing things after the fact. People would come in with advanced cancers or, you know, diseases that, you know, there was a celebration of making a diagnosis or a label. But in the end, you know, the patients were already far along their disease process. And cure was challenging. And I realized in my training that there was just, you know, the healthcare system we're working in is what we would now call sick care. Yes, it really is responsive. It waits for things to be broken. And so, you know, through my training, I kind of recognized that there was a need to shift or pivot how we approach people.