Why 15 Minutes with a Patient Is Never Enough

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Healthcare debates endlessly about cost, reimbursement, and spending as a share of GDP. But according to one Harvard physician and economist, none of that is actually the binding constraint.

In this clip from our episode “How AI Is Changing The Way Doctors Think”, host John Driscoll sits down with Dr. Bapu Jena to discuss why time is the scarcest resource in medicine, and what it means when a doctor’s only goal walking into a patient’s room is to make sure they feel better when he leaves.

Listen to the full episode here

🎙️⚕️ABOUT DR. BAPU JENA
Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, is the Joseph P. Newhouse Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and a physician in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. As an economist and physician, Dr. Jena’s research involves several areas of health economics and policy including the use of natural experiments in health care, the economics of physician behavior and the physician workforce, medical malpractice, the economics of health care productivity, and the economics of medical innovation. Dr. Jena graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his MD and PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and completed his residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is the host of the Freakonomics, MD podcast, which explores the “hidden side of health care.”

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