The Approaching Storm in American Health Care
October 6, 2007Susan Bartlett, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University, explains how arthritis, aging, and obesity are combining to create a “perfect” storm for American Health Care. If you read Sebastian Junger’s Perfect Storm or saw the Hollywood adaptation, you will probably recall the scene in which a weatherman stares in horror at the radar charts on his computer screen. He watches as three massive weather systems converge toward a point at which…