DIY healthcare: The case for tech-enabled personal responsibility
Peter Cochrane argues for a culture change in health-care, with more personal responsibility enabled by technology
Our experiences of healthcare are tempered by expectations set by the media and rose-tinted recollections of some distant past when everything worked well. In reality all systems globally are struggling...
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