Whoever calculated that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated the ratio, according to super-investor Warren Buffet. In this episode, we hear from physician Ralph Snyderman, MD, a proponent of preventive medicine, who believes that our health care system should place greater emphasis on preventive practices (such as healthy diet and stress management), because it is more humane to avoid disease than to cope with it, and because it is a far cheaper mode of health care. And yet, Dr. Snyderman points out, there is little reimbursement for a physician who takes the time to counsel a patient in preventive lifestyle choices, but lucrative compensation for the high-tech interventions used by doctors when a patient does get sick. Dr. Snyderman believes this backward system is simply unsustainable.