The primary goal of health care is to improve the quality of life by improving the health of any individual. It aims to preserve or restore physical, mental, or emotional well-being but now, we, as a nation, are being deprived of one of our most basic needs which are being healthy.

Access to healthcare should be free and available to everyone because the government must ensure that everybody has access to healthcare. May it be under communism, capitalism, or any other system, every person, regardless of age, economic status, or race, has the right to quality healthcare.

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Jeffrey Fraser who’s a retired neurologist and is a big advocate for health care reform. He’ll share with us his insights and vision for a nice blueprint for healthcare, his book that’s all about the flaws he found in our healthcare system, and we’ll also touch on the importance of prevention education, mental health services, and innovation of electronic medical recording.

We need compassionate healthcare, collaboration from all people, from the public and the private sectors institutions, health policymakers, economists, clinicians, and nurses to come together and work on a viable solution to provide care most cost-effectively and reward our medical practitioners and compensate them fairly for the hard work they do. 

Memorable Quotes:

• Our system takes from the poor and the working class to generate wealth for the already wealthy.
• We are believers in free-market capitalism, but healthcare is not something that can be delivered in a socially tolerable way.
• Healthcare reform is about medicine for good, it's about good medicine for everyone, not just for the privileged.
• The problem is that our medical-industrial complex feeds into that desire for the quick fix and they create unrealistic expectations.
• Electronic medical records could be a wonderful way for doctors to communicate better with each other.
• Telemedicine is not just a way for a patient to connect with a doctor. It's another way for doctors to connect sometimes in real-time when the patient is in there.
• The change will ultimately be for the good and to give people the courage and incentive to advocate for reform in our healthcare system.

  - Dr. Jeffrey Fraser

About the Guest:

Dr. Jeffrey Fraser is a retired neurologist who practiced for almost 30 years in a large public hospital in the heart of Silicon Valley.  His passion for equity and diversity drew him to serve a population of immigrants, uninsured, undocumented and underserved in the Bay Area.  He recently wrote a book” BluePrint for a Gold Medal Health Care System.

Check out Dr. Jeff’s book here.

About the Host:

Dr. Jette is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and the President & CEO of ABCs for Global Health. Click here for her full profile or read her full interview here.

About ABC's for Global Health:

ABCs for Global Health is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding practical​ solutions to health problems of disadvantaged and underserved communities. Their programs include telemedicine, research on nutrition and healthcare, and disaster response.

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