We have 35% of doctors burn out and doctors are one of the highest professions for suicide

Dr. Marty Makary: "The system is designed for throughput and billing and coding. Why do you think we have 35% of doctors burn out and doctors are one of the highest professions for suicide? We're doing a terrible thing to these people. And a lot of doctors now are rejecting it. They're saying, we're not gonna have anything to do with this.

Half of my students at Johns Hopkins, don't wanna have anything to do with this crazy, broken system. They don't care about the big pay in the house and the suburb. They want to be a part of something bigger. They wanna deal with the root causes. They wanna start businesses, they're entrepreneurial, they're getting second degrees.

They wanna spend time in a Medicare Advantage model where basically they get paid on a lump sum for a population. They can spend an hour and talk about the sleep quality of a person that affects their blood pressure not just throwing, doling out antihypertensives. Maybe we need to talk about school lunch programs instead of putting every kid on Ozempic. Maybe we need to talk about treating diabetes with cooking classes instead of throwing insulin at people. Maybe we need to talk about environmental exposures that cause cancer, not just the chemotherapy to treat it.

We're going backwards. We're watching all of these chronic diseases consume our culture, and we can give, gotta get off this myopic focus. So luckily, good stuff is happening. A lot of doctors are speaking up, they're getting off the treadmill, they're spending time with patients, they're coming up with their own models for care, financial models. And a bunch of us docs are going directly to the public to educate them about health. Yes, it's so revolutionary and it's brave because these are very big, powerful forces that have a financial interest, frankly, in keeping us sick."