It’s often easier – and less expensive, painful and time-consuming – to do some very simple things to prevent an illness, as opposed to treating it once you have it. That’s a very timely thought right now, with respiratory illness season upon us. And the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has a program called “Risk Less, Do More” that encourages preventing illness. Dr. Donald Dumford, the medical director of infection prevention at the Cleveland Clinic in Akron, Ohio, joins the show to discuss this program and the problems it’s designed to prevent.

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10:06 – An ounce of prevention this flu season