Toward a National Conversation on Health: Disruptive Intervention and the Transformation from Health Care to Health.

Toward a National Conversation on Health: Disruptive Intervention and the Transformation from Health Care to Health. Mil Med. 2018 Nov 01;183(suppl_3):193-197 Authors: Dorrance KA, Robbins DA, Kimsey L, LaRochelle JS, Durning S Abstract Over a century ago, Abraham Flexner's landmark report on medical education resulted in the most extensive reforms of medical training in history. They led to major advances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the relief of suffering. His prediction that "the physician's function is fast becoming social and preventive, rather than individual and curative," however, was never realized.Instead, with the rise of biomedical science, the scientific method and the American Medical Association, the health care system became increasingly distanced from a holistic approach to life that recognizes the critical role social determinants play in people's health. These developments created the beginning of the regulatory controls that have come to define and shape American health care - and our unhealthy obsession with illness, disease and curative medicine that has resulted in a system that has little to do with health.To realize Flexner's prediction, and to transform health care into a holistic system whose primary goals are focused on health outcomes, six disruptive interventions are proposed. First, health needs to be placed in the context of community. Second, the model of primary care needs to be rev...
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