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Casey Means: “Medical education doesn't focus on these modifiable root…”

Featuring: Casey Means, Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Levels | National

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Frankly, having practiced, seen thousands of patients worked in this system for almost a decade in clinical medicine, it's not the focus of what we as doctors are incentivized to spend our time on. It's not what's reimbursed. And this is a problem. Medical education doesn't focus on these modifiable root causes of diseases. The science is showing us through amazing emerging work in systems biology and network biology that the physiologic causes of the vast majority of diseases that are taking American lives … (05:00–05:05)

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Asserts that medical education lacks emphasis on the root causes of diseases.

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