It’s easy to get excited about technological advances such as nanobots that swim in blood to deliver drugs or 3-D printers that print human tissues. However, in our enthusiasm to find the next fix, we are failing to notice the ground slipping underneath the health care industry.
Here are four trends that are changing health care but on the surface are too unsexy for us to care about.
Trend 1: The doctor-patient trust is at an all-time low
The relationship between doctors and patients has transformed from the one where the doctor intimately grasped our history by treating everyone in the family to a transaction-based activity.
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