I read an interesting piece this morning about a medical renegade who turned his back on one of the most powerful health care systems in the world. It’s not easy to push back against a leviathan. If I give you an oar, I doubt that you could change the direction of a cruise ship. But sometimes, a single person can make a wall fall down. Remember, the brave Chinese man who faced down an approaching tank in Tiananmen Square, which was captured on an iconic video? On a lesser scale, an orthopedist, formerly employed by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, decided that his Clinic bosses were preventing him from offering his patient’s the best medical care possible. He fired them. "Let's blow this joint!" The Clinic, in a cost cutting move, restricted orthopedists to using artificial joints from only two device companies. The surgeon had been using artificial joints from another company for nearly 3 decades, and he reported excellent results. This orthopedic surg
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