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We’ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being. And well-being is about the reasons one wishes to be alive. Those reasons matter not just at the end of life, or when debility comes, but all along the way. 

Over the past decade, the social networks broke their promise to content creators. The backlash has just begun. New @ScreenshotEssay: The Algorithmic Feed, Content Creators, and Broken Promises

This is not to say that fully vertical systems are a panacea: they of course have their own drawbacks. For one, they limit patient choices (because your insurance dictates a narrow range of providers that you can see). However, value-based care contracts that create only a partial alignment between payers with providers contain many of the same dra... See more

“We’re so hung up on the challenges of running the massive education system and failing to pinpoint the problem.”

We should want exceptional people to believe they can do exceptional things on their own if they work hard enough at it. If everyone internalizes the myth of the lone genius to such a degree that they no longer even try to become lone geniuses then the myth will become a reality.