[p2p-research] The bigger picture on health care (was Re: NY Times...Cancer from the Kitchen)

[Ryan Lanham]

On 12/8/09, Paul D. Fernhout <pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote:

> Ryan Lanham wrote:
>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/opinion/06kristof.html?_r=1&em
>>
>
> So, there is a real difference in that sense in what peer medicine or
> community-based medicine can do compared to what a "doctor" in an "office"
> can do. I'm not saying medical knowledge is not important, or that
> scientific studies are not important. I'm more saying the system is deeply
> broken. Somehow peers can be part of fixing it. Somehow.
>
> --Paul Fernhout
> http://www.pdfernhout.net/


I also agree the P2P medicine is underdone...protocols...models...modes of
getting data...we aren't moving very fast!

Ryan
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