What's Up Doc? Death And How It’s Viewed

Q: Why do we say people "fight" an illness?A: This question gets to the heart of a huge problem we have in the United States; how we think about sickness and death. We focus our medical care system on treating illness rather than promoting health. Let me use some Medicare data to illustrate this point.Eighty percent of people who die in the U.S.

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