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The $1 Trillion Health Care Problem That's Jacking Up Americans' Medical Bills—And How You Can Fight It Newsweek 12/17/2020 Best-selling author of the Get What's Yours series Philip Moeller takes on health care in his new book, Get What's Yours for Health Care (Simon & Schuster, January), which explains how to make intelligent health care decisions, talk to your doctor and receive the best possible care. In this excerpt, Moeller discusses how too many tests, procedures and other care can lead to unneeded care and bad outcomes, as well as the costs of misdiagnoses from too little care—...

Aarti Bansal and Grant Blashki: Six steps to both greener and better primary care December 15, 2020 Most primary care clinicians are well aware that the climate crisis is a health crisis and of the immediate and significant health co-benefits of climate action, such as through reduced air pollution. However, when it comes to taking action, in our experience many clinicians do not make the link with clinical practice. This is perhaps a result of extrapolating from actions to reduce one’s personal carbon footprint in areas like energy, waste, and transport. Yet, the majority of general practi...