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And, in some cases, these drugs can even relieve the hallucinations of patients with Charles Bonnet Syndrome.
I saw real patients and I wore the white coat for the first time in 17 years, in fact since I became a management consultant.
In some countries, we have long waiting times for patients for surgery.
In other countries, new drugs are not being reimbursed, and therefore don't reach patients.
And ultimately, some physicians will say today that they don't have the full liberty to make the choices they think are right for their patients.
And so we took a step back and we said, "What is it that we are trying to achieve?" Ultimately, in the healthcare system, we're aiming at improving health for the patients, and we need to do so at a limited, or affordable, cost.
On the screen behind me, you see what we mean by value: outcomes that matter to patients relative to the money we spend.
Very quickly, they found that if you put cement in the bone of the patient before you put the metal shaft in, it actually lasted a lot longer, and most patients would never have to be re-operated on in their lifetime.
They looked at how many patients have needed to be re-operated on seven years after the first surgery.
So many unnecessary surgeries, and so much unnecessary suffering for all the patients who were operated on in that seven year period.
The one thing they have in common is they really care about what they achieve in terms of quality for their patients.
And if somebody can show them that the result they perform for their patients is no better than what others do, they will do whatever it takes to improve.
We're bringing together leading physicians and patients to discuss, disease by disease, what is really quality, what should we measure, and to make those standards global.
They have a new CEO, and she has a vision: I want to manage my big institution much more on quality, outcomes that matter to patients.
And we discussed what are the costs for these patients, can we do treatment more efficiently?
By measuring value in healthcare, that is not only costs but outcomes that matter to patients, we will make staff in hospitals and elsewhere in the healthcare system not a problem but an important part of the solution.
That sinister expression means that if hospital resources are limited, for example if only one donor heart becomes available for transplant, or if a surgeon has time to operate on only a certain number of patients, American hospitals have an explicit policy of giving preference to younger patients over older patients on the grounds that younger patients are considered more valuable to society because they have more years of life ahead of them, even though the younger patients have fewer years of valuable life experience behind them.
It really just isn't working, and that means that patients that badly need new therapies are not getting them, and diseases are going untreated.
And patients' rights groups seemed to get very upset about the kinds of things that they would witness, so the whole idea of electroconvulsive, electroshock therapy disappeared, but has had a renaissance in the last 10 years.
And, in fact, it didn't make any difference, because I didn't have any patients anymore.
That seems trivial, but it's less time spent caring for patients.
St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston, Texas, which has deployed industrial Internet technology to electronically monitor and connect patients, staff and medical equipment, has reduced bed turnaround times by nearly one hour.
It means more patients can be treated, more lives can be saved.
That difference between our ancestral past and our abundant present is the reason that Dr. Yoni Freedhoff of the University of Ottawa would like to take some of his patients back to a time when food was less available, and it's also the reason that changing the food environment is really going to be the most effective solution to obesity.
Well, what you do is, you test in animals, you test in test tubes, but there's this notion of going from the bench to the bedside, and in order to get from the bench, the lab, to the bedside, to the patients, you've got to get the drug tested.
Psychotherapy can be very effective for PTSD, helping patients better understand their triggers.
I'm very pleased to be here today to talk to you all about how we might repair the damaged brain, and I'm particularly excited by this field, because as a neurologist myself, I believe that this offers one of the great ways that we might be able to offer hope for patients who today live with devastating and yet untreatable diseases of the brain.
And the significance of this is difficult to exaggerate, because what it means that from anybody in this room, but particularly patients, you could now generate a bespoke, personalized tissue repair kit.
We took patients with multiple sclerosis and asked a simple question: Would stem cells from the bone marrow be protective of their nerves?
We've started collecting data for malaria, Chagas disease and giardia from patients themselves.
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