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“when a country’s economy develops…the greater resources make medical capabilities more wildly available. People turn to healthcare systems when they are ill at the end of life, they often die in the hospital instead of the home… as a country’s income climbs to the highest levels, people have the means to be concerned about the quality of their lives… and death at home actually rise again”

“We’ve created a multi trillion dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets— and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.”