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Why 15 Minutes with a Patient Is Never Enough

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Healthcare debates endlessly about cost, reimbursement, and spending as a share of GDP. But according to one Harvard physician and economist, none of that is actually the binding constraint.

In this clip from our episode “How AI Is Changing The Way Doctors Think”, host John Driscoll sits down with Dr. Bapu Jena to discuss why time is the scarcest resource in medicine, and what it means when a doctor’s only goal walking into a patient’s room is to make sure they feel better when he leaves.

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🎙️⚕️ABOUT DR. BAPU JENA

Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, is the…

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