Peter Attia· MD
paper at ASCO showed that aastan increased uh Glo blastoma survival rates by um two months well patients want to know what's the cure did you cure anyone else that you haven't cured before if that's the top paper at ASCO our investment on Research is a terrible Roi and I think it's CU we're not funding Big Ideas we need Ben Franklin thinkers Ben Franklin intellectually curious starts thinking about Opthalmology invents bifocals is interested in electricity invents the lightning rod invents a stove called the Pennsylvania stove which is an amazing invent I mean he's a scci is a true scientist we don't have Ben Franklin thinkers today in medicine I think V H pad is one you think we don't have them or you think we don't have a a vehicle to fund them we don't have a vehicle to encourage them I think and I'm just saying this because I've said this to other people you're one of those Ben Franklin type thinkers you think broadly about Healthcare that's what we do on our research team is you're told in med school day one hey here's the neter textbook of anatomy pick an organ you're going to have to focus on just one which one do you like do you like kidney do you like brain heart just you have to pick one you're like well what if I'm interested in the whole body or the system or the way we deliver care or the way we fund research or approve drugs or what if I'm interested in all of it what if I'm interested in gun control and violence prevention and I'm interested in trauma and all everything you're basically told no no stop thinking like that you got to pick an organ I mean I went to the gym as a medical student and there were some docs there were also used the J and they would ask me every day what are you going into again and I want to be like I'm a seconde medical student I don't know is that okay I don't know and I think you can get a a specialization and then come around and get off the hamster wheel there's a lot of these docs now saying I don't care about my rvu bonus I want to do something more meaningful and they're starting businesses 50% of our medical students at John's Hopkins are getting getting a second degree with their medical degree they they don't want to live the life that they see you know with these guys who are like I got four NIH grants and presented you know I got 60 papers I mean I hit that point where I was like okay I've published 300 scientific peerreview articles nobody's reading them I don't think I've made Beyond maybe a couple meaningful contributions like what are we doing we've got to focus on impact so everything we do now in our research group focuses on impact and that's how we got into the science of medical errors Frailty as a condition predatory billing and price gouging in medicine you know 62% of Americans say in a Harvard survey they don't trust the medical profession to build them fairly and they avoid care or delay it for fear of the bill so you can now have the cure for pancreas cancer but that cure is only instead of being 100% effective it's only 38% effective because you've lost You've Lost That connection right so um rebuilding trust is the hottest topic right now in medical journals essays [Music]