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Preventive Medicine: From Past Discoveries to Future Challenges, Part 1
Preventive Medicine and the “Preventioneers”--From Benjamin Franklin to Modern Public Health: Dr. Ronald Hoffman interviews public health physician Dr. Barry Davis, MD-PhD, author of "The Preventioneers: Diseases, Disasters, and the Discoveries That Changed Our World," about why preventive knowledge often fails to translate into action. Davis explains Benjamin Franklin’s “ounce of prevention” quote originated in fire prevention and led to innovations like fire companies, building codes, lightning rods, the Franklin stove, and fire insurance. They discuss hypertension as a “silent killer,” the…
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