Our Real Existential Medical Crisis? Dr. Robert Pearl on How the US Healthcare System Deeply Resistant to Innovation

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On this episode, Andrew talks with Dr. Robert Pearl MD about why the US Medical System is now so deeply resistant to All innovation. Pearl also explains why American healthcare is about to be taken over by Amazon, Walmart and CVS and how ChatGPT will revolutionize the doctor/patient relationship.

Dr. Robert Pearl is the former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group. Named one of Modern Healthcare‘s 50 most influential physician leaders, Pearl is a clinical professor of plastic surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and is on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches courses on strategy and leadership, and lectures on information technology and health care policy. He is the author of the Washington Post bestseller Mistreated, hosts the popular podcast Fixing Healthcare, publishes a newsletter with over 10,000 subscribers, and is a regular contributor to Forbes. His latest book is Uncaring.