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April 13, 2007
Why medicine is so backwards
In his The Pulse article Supply side medicine of April 12th, Anders Sandberg reveals the perverse incentives in today's health care systems.
Diffusion of technologies such as telephones, email and electronic records have been extremely slow in medicine compared to other professions. The explanation he gives is the lack of incentives to innovate, and points at the far more dynamic situation in cosmetic surgery.
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Posted by Waldemar at April 13, 2007 06:30 PM