The Role of Homeostasis
Our healthcare system incentivizes responding to patients who are sick, selling them treatments, curing their immediate condition, and sending them home.
To be clear: This business model works brilliantly when you’re battling an infectious disease or an injury.
When a person goes to the doctor with a physical problem, whether it be pneumonia or a broken leg, the goal of the doctor is to provide a billable product or service—an antibiotic or a cast on the person’s leg—that will return the patient to a condition of normality or, more precisely, homeostasis. Coined in 1930 by the physician Walter Cannon in his book The Wisdom ...
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