The Puzzling Future of Healthcare
This post is from a talk at the 2021 Link Ventures CEO summit. Original talk: Transcript: The practice of medicine has always been an information problem. Clinicians seek to diagnose an ailment and to prescribe a cure based on an incomplete understanding of what’s happening in a patient’s body as it relates to an incomplete set of knowledge about diagnoses and treatments. This aspect of medicine has remained the same for centuries even as our collective understanding of medicine has gone through three major phases. Until the 18th century, much