Some Goods News for a Change, Article: "World's Richest Woman Has Opened a Medical School"

againstthegrain said:
Oh ok, that's rather harsh.

There is a few men on this list. The women on the list managed to marry well.
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Yeah, we all tend to focus on billionaires like Bezos and Musk when we think of wealthy men because they are in the news for being outlandish, but Bill Gates has made tremendous strides in focusing on global health and education. Warren Buffet has always flown beneath the radar.
 
seadoug said:
Yeah, we all tend to focus on billionaires like Bezos and Musk when we think of wealthy men because they are in the news for being outlandish, but Bill Gates has made tremendous strides in focusing on global health and education. Warren Buffet has always flown beneath the radar.
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Buffet has now donated 60 billion so far......he plans to give away 99% of his wealth......
 
The school is to have a unique, much needed focus on preventive medicine. Big Pharma pours money into traditional allopathic schools (ones that produce MDs) so they're medication rather than prevention focused. Kudos to Alice Walton for giving MDs an education with a stronger focus on lifestyle.

From the article:

Instead of drilling young physicians to chase symptom after symptom and perform test after test, Alice Walton wants her school’s graduates to keep patients healthy by practicing something that most doctors today don’t prioritize: preventive medicine and whole-health principles, which involve caring for (and not just treating) the entire person and all of the factors—from their mental health to their living conditions and lifestyle choices—that contribute to wellbeing.​
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Those aren’t new ideas, of course, but traditional medicine has only paid lip service to them. Experts have noted that while as much as 80% of medical education focuses on biology, about 60% of premature deaths are due to behavioral factors including lifestyle habits like diet, exercise, and smoking. “I applied to 34 schools, and nowhere else are they doing this,” says Ellie Andrew-Vaughn, who arrived in Bentonville from Ann Arbor, Mich.​
 
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AnnieA said:
From the article:

Instead of drilling young physicians to chase symptom after symptom and perform test after test, Alice Walton wants her school’s graduates to keep patients healthy by practicing something that most doctors today don’t prioritize: preventive medicine and whole-health principles,​
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Sounds very much like traditional osteopathic medicine.
 
Tommy said:
Sounds very much like traditional osteopathic medicine.
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It does. My cousin chose to pursue a DO rather than a MD for this reason though he was a shoo-in for most any school--was already a pharmacist with an excellent academic record in pharmacy school and competitive MCAT score. He's a cardiologist now and gives drug reps fits, lol!

Most MDs have to study lifestyle training on their own so am so glad to see this school has a better approach than other allopathic ones.
 

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