Dr. Jim Weinstein

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McKinsey on Healthcare · Picking winning strategies to improve healthcare productivity: An interview with Dr. Jim Weinstein · 24 Jan 2020 podcast

So that was really exciting and came out with a classification that's used today globally on how you actually do resect tumors of the spine.

During my time at the University of Iowa, I worked on pain models because all the patients I saw for back problems had back pain.

And I didn't understand why.

Even though I'd gone through medical school and residency, nobody actually explained to me.

why they have back pain.

So we developed an animal model to study pain.

And I actually wrote the papers to describe why people actually have back pain and radicular pain.

Then the question is, why do you operate on them?

What does that do?

So then we did the largest study ever done by NIH on back surgery.

In the United States, we studied several thousands of patients across 14 states, 140 physicians, and came out with some pretty interesting studies that made front page of Otherfold, New York Times.

So then I studied at Dartmouth and became director of the Dartmouth Institute, which studied health care for the United States.

And so all of this stuff just happened because I was asking why.

And I probably asked too many times and became CEO.

I've had a fascinating life before coming to Microsoft.

I think that there's somewhat a white space between healthcare and tech.

And I think as somebody who studied health services research, studied the US healthcare system, I felt like we weren't living the promise we wrote about with the variation in our own system.

So my mantra as CEO for seven years was to create a sustainable health system.

not a healthcare system.

And so if you think about that, that's a very divergent path for a healthcare system today.

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