Dr. Susan Monarez
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But create the choreography from other preventive type devices that, you know, can be easily stacked and delivered to the home so that you can achieve that level of 90% of your preventive care in your home.
If you didn't have to wait six weeks to make a primary care appointment, which you got seven minutes with your primary care provider, which is to no fault of their own.
There are, you know, we're going to be deficient over 80,000 primary care providers by 2030.
I mean, there just is not sufficient supply in the health workforce to be able to meet the demands.
If you don't walk into that primary care appointment with the set of six questions that you want to have answered because you somehow need to know your wellness status, you can't walk out of there knowing that, you know, you have touched the base of everything that you're potentially worried about.
Or if you're not worried about it, you should be worried about it.
So, so, so the whole brick and mortar situation is one of a, you know, this Byzantine process where you have to physically go somewhere.
Somebody has to sit with you for seven to 15 minutes, come up with, you know, most often they'll say, well, just get some blood tests.
And then you have to come back to get the blood test.
And you have to come back to have the reading of the blood test.
Then you have to come back for your referral.
And I mean, and you take your time off of work and you take time, you know, your child has
if you can have 90% of that done in your home before you even set foot in a brick-and-mortar environment, and that technology exists.
I promise you, Eric, it exists.
Yes.
Yes, we can.
We just have to have an intentionality associated with it.
And look, is it going to be incredibly hard because of all the things you just talked about?
Absolutely.
But I actually think that there is a for-profit business model related to that first 90% of in-home services that if you can take what we're now seeing as this maturation of technology