Author: cailin
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Untraditional Chinese Medicine: Expecting More From Cultural Healthcare
Alternatively titled: Yellow Fever. Penny-wise, Pound Foolish. Sir Andrew Witty’s Model Minorities Chinese (and, generally, Asian) Americans are one of the most attractive consumer segments in the insurance business. As illustrated below, they tend to be lower utilizers, ~58% lower than white Americans. This makes them attractive to payers trying to minimize their medical expenditures…
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Supplement Science
Since the days of Dr. Oz, a popular internet heuristic for clocking quack doctors has been “are they shilling supplements?” It’s easy to disparage: a cheap-to-produce, relatively unregulated, poorly understood product that lets the seller elude to potential health benefits without obligation to prove results. At the same time, supplements have flooded the mainstream, lionized…