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Kansas Healthcare Consultant Debunks Ten Myths Of Modern Medicine

When it comes to getting medical treatment it’s good to live in America. Here we get the finest health care in the world, have confidence in the doctors we see and our hospitals are the best places to be when we’re ill. Not so says healthcare consultant John Leifer.

On this edition of Up to Date, Leifer talks with Steve Krasek to expose these and other myths of modern medicine in this country including this one: we’re the patients so we’re not part of the problem.

Guest:

  • John Leifer is Chief Executive Officer of The Leifer Group, a healthcare consulting firm, and author of The Myths of Modern Medicine: The Alarming Truth about American Health Care.
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