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An Interview With Dr. Vikas Saini: Creating a More Just, Effective, and Affordable Healthcare System
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Fixing American healthcare will require more than mere tweaks around the edges. Dr. Vikas Saini, president of the Boston-based Lown Institute, believes that it will require a return to medicine’s humanist roots. In this interview he describes some of the ways in which many healthcare organizations prioritize revenue and profit over patients and communities. He also explains why he remains optimistic that Hippocratic principles will ultimately prevail.
Related Information:
- Lown Institute (https://lowninstitute.org/)
- 2024 Top Hospitals: America’s Most Socially Responsible Hospitals (https://lownhospitalsindex.org/the-most-socially-responsible-hospitals-in-the-u-s-2024/)
- 2023 Shkreli Awards: The Lown Institute’s Top Ten List of the Worst Examples of Profiteering and Dysfunction in Healthcare (https://lowninstitute.org/projects/2023-shkreli-awards/)
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