Comment Re:also: more doctors, less pay, more compassion. (Score 1) 584
This will take science. It will take art. It will take innovation. It will take ambition.
It will also take the realization that the leading causes of death in the USA are all preventable:
- tobacco usage
- poor diet and physical inactivity
- alcohol consumption
Source: http://proxychi.baremetal.com/csdp.org/research/1238.pdf
There's only so much a doctor can do to stop the damage if the patient is already physically in poor health.