Robert Pearl

Former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group

Robert Pearl, M.D., is one of the most influential physician leaders today, according to Modern Healthcare, and the author of the bestselling book “Mistreated: Why We Think We’re Getting Good Healthcare—And Why We’re Usually Wrong.” As the former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group, the largest medical group in the nation, and as president of the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, he was responsible for the medical care of 5 million Kaiser Permanente members on both coasts. Pearl is a board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon, a clinical professor of surgery at Stanford University, and on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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The U.S. Health Care System Is Terminally Broken

With Shannon Brownlee, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, David T. Feinberg, Robert Pearl
September 28, 2017

This debate was presented live at Transform, the annual conference of the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation The United States spends more on health care than any other nation, but the system remains woefully inefficient. Consumers are fed up with soaring costs and poor outcomes, insurers take issue with market instability, and providers lament rising barriers to quality care. And while government is forced to contend with enormous financial strain, employers fear that rising health care costs will impact…

The U.S. Health Care System Is Terminally Broken

With Shannon Brownlee, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, David T. Feinberg, Robert Pearl
September 28, 2017

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