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Introduction to Afternoon Session
Introduction to Afternoon Session
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Chairman of the Department of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief and Anton and Margaret Fuisz Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center r ~ he year 2020 will bring with it changes in the health care system and the way in which we care for our patients that ~ _ will be greatly influenced by other events in society and other changes that surround us. As I thought about this, I was reminded of Oliver Wendell Holmes when he said, "The truth is that medicine is as sensitive to outside influencespolitical, religious, philosophical and even imaginative-as is the barometer to changes in the atmospheric density." This session is concerned not only with how the barometer of medicine is likely to respond to changes in the atmospheric density of the health care system, but also with the kinds of changes that will occur within the health care system itself.
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Cardinal John Newman once said that he did not have much use for all of this futurism: "I do not ask to see the distant future. One step is enough for me." However, in the current health care environment, one step might not be enough.
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