Steve Brown

So now how do you deal with that?

Well, still, when you have any kind of complex condition,

chances are that doing the right thing a little bit sooner is going to be much more efficient.

When I was doing the chronic care company, when we were deciding what to focus on, my kind of thought experiment was,

stand at the door to the hospital and watch everyone coming in and just ask yourself how many of these hospital admissions could have been prevented, not if we ate our vegetables 20 years ago, but if we knew a little more like five days ago or four days ago or three days ago.

And it turns out like half of those things

could have been prevented if five days ago it might have been an office visit, not a hospital admission.

So getting to the right answer just a little bit sooner, there's massive leverage in that.

For cancer, I mean, there's 600,000 people in the US are gonna die of cancer this year.

And how many of those people got diagnosed at stage four or stage three, and if they had gotten diagnosed at stage one or stage two,

that probably wouldn't have died this year.

Yeah.

And, you know, and, you know, there's also another thing is if, if they, how many of those people, if they'd gotten on the absolute perfect therapy available to them at the time, rather than trying a bunch of other stuff and then, you know, and then not getting the right economical solution first.

Yeah.

So, so, you know, doing the right thing.

Doing the right thing, doing the best thing usually saves a lot of money and saves a lot of pain.

So how do we be smarter so that we do the right thing sooner?

I don't know what the barriers are yet because we haven't run into them yet.

But I think that I think we're concerned about is that there's that, you know, there tends to be often things get slowed down by kind of a knee jerk, want to regulate everything to, you know, like make everything perfect.

And, you know, like, well, you know, there's a lot of people that die from because they got misdiagnosed or medical error.