There are limitless opportunities to practice high-value, cost-conscious care
I am not an economist.
This is how I start my high-value care session during the internal medicine clerkship orientation day at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), and it is absolutely true. It doesn’t take an economist, though, to realize that health care is too expensive. Health care spending as a percentage of GDP has increased from around 7 percent in 1970 to almost 18 percent in 2010. An …
