The Lancet Editor: On Pollution, The Next Pandemic & Why Indulgences Are Okay | Doctor Vs Internet | S2 Ep 26
Why does the average Indian citizen live 9 years less than someone in China? Why are more people in India dying from poor quality care than from a lack of access to doctors?
In this episode of Doctor vs Internet, host Sonal Mehrotra Kapoor sits down with Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, the world’s most influential medical journal. Drawing from the newly released Lancet Commission on a Citizen-Centred Indian Health System, Horton reveals why India has reached a critical "inflection point" where more medicine isn’t the answer. Better medicine is.
In this deep-dive conversation…
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