{"id":2560,"date":"2020-01-22T16:27:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T16:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/?p=2560"},"modified":"2022-03-24T20:53:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T20:53:23","slug":"does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Healthcare Contribute to Climate Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do patients and the healthcare business model contribute to climate change? Although clinical waste and pollution take many forms, the biggest drivers of these emissions appear to be hospitals and drug companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Much has been written about the possible relationship between climate change and its effects on health. In contrast, the possible relationship between healthcare consumers, the healthcare business model and climate change has barely been discussed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2019\/1\/17\/18184358\/healthcare-doctors-climate-change-divesting\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2019\/1\/17\/18184358\/healthcare-doctors-climate-change-divesting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/health-care-waste\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/health-care-waste<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do healthcare consumers contribute to climate change?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before we lay fault with all the other stakeholders in the healthcare industry for playing a part in climate change, let us look instead at ourselves. We need to see what we can do individually to lessen healthcare usage and its impact on the environment. Regretfully, diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular-related events are all on the rise and chronic illnesses like these play a major role in increased medical waste.\u00a0 However, there is a positive side &#8211; many of these diseases can be reversed by making lifestyle changes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular-related events are all linked directly to our eating habits and the rising incidence of obesity. Therefore, it would seem reasonable that the very first order of business for reducing healthcare\u2019s impact on the environment is for us to get serious about our own wellbeing and get involved in preventive health. A behavioral modification program, reinforcing healthy dietary and lifestyle choices, may lessen our healthcare consumption and help to reduce the healthcare industry\u2019s impact on the environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nih.gov\/news-events\/nih-research-matters\/how-dietary-factors-influence-disease-risk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.nih.gov\/news-events\/nih-research-matters\/how-dietary-factors-influence-disease-risk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publichealth.org\/public-awareness\/obesity\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.publichealth.org\/public-awareness\/obesity\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is the current healthcare business model partly responsible for affecting climate change?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Certain healthcare sectors like cosmetics, infertility and weight-loss are consumer-driven. Patients pay for these services, not insurance plans. Therefore, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/about\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">there exists cost-transparency, cost-control and performance-based competition<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> because access is consumer-directed according to demand. In contrast, most other healthcare consumption is NOT consumer-driven but largely fueled by a fee-for-service business model.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This payment option is used by government-sponsored health programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, nationalized health systems, single-payer systems, and plans run by the health insurance industry. When this fee-for-service business model is used for routine medical needs, it does not encourage or reward consumer behavior towards preventive care. In contrast, the more consumers seek testing and treatment (since insurance plans are paying) the more providers will recommend costly testing and treatment. In fact, for the greater healthcare industry, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">there are simply no mechanisms in place to keep healthcare expenditures competitive<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in-check and consumer-driven. Instead, a payment model for healthcare that rewards all caregivers for production only encourages more production and no improvement in our health. Furthermore, this fee-for-service model that rewards production also commonly exposes the public to unnecessary testing and treatment, medical errors, more costs and results in more health-related waste.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/carpe-diem\/what-economic-lessons-about-health-care-costs-can-we-learn-from-the-competitive-market-for-cosmetic-procedures\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.aei.org\/carpe-diem\/what-economic-lessons-about-health-care-costs-can-we-learn-from-the-competitive-market-for-cosmetic-procedures\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How can patients and the healthcare industry work to lessen their impact on the environment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To put the brakes on the out-of-control costs, waste and pollution in healthcare the public needs to get serious about preventive health. In addition, the health insurance industry needs to be steered towards a consumer-driven business model. This template has already been proven to be effective in stabilizing usage and costs (and therefore waste) in several other healthcare sectors. Consequently, there should be no <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/patients-2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reason why cost-transparency and the direct pay model shouldn\u2019t lead to cost-savings and less healthcare waste when applied to routine non-emergency care, laboratory studies, imaging and rehabilitation.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a direct-pay model in place, employers and the government can realign health plans towards more affordable and likely, a more environmentally-friendly universal catastrophic coverage program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read more,<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christensen, J. Grossman, M.D., J. Hwang, M.D., \u201cThe Innovator\u2019s Prescription\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davechase\/2016\/07\/03\/employers-declaration-of-independence-from-traditional-health-insurance\/#3f05dab5e875\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davechase\/2016\/07\/03\/employers-declaration-of-independence-from-traditional-health-insurance\/#3f05dab5e875<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A behavioral change that reinforces healthy dietary and lifestyle choices may lessen our healthcare consumption and help reduce the healthcare industry\u2019s impact on the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Does Healthcare Contribute to Climate Change? | HEALTHdrum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Do patients and the healthcare business model contribute to climate change? Healthy lifestyle choices can lessen our healthcare consumption.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Does Healthcare Contribute to Climate Change? | HEALTHdrum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Do patients and the healthcare business model contribute to climate change? Healthy lifestyle choices can lessen our healthcare consumption.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"HEALTHdrum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HEALTHdrum-103735818167546\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-22T16:27:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-24T20:53:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/priscilla-du-preez-tJ1uvdf68e0-unsplash-scaled-e1632779294904.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bert Vorstman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@healthdrumapp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@healthdrumapp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bert Vorstman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Bert Vorstman\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/953d5fca0a0cb8ee1915ae9f4ed3741a\"},\"headline\":\"Does Healthcare Contribute to Climate Change?\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-22T16:27:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-24T20:53:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/\"},\"wordCount\":644,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Climate Change\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/\",\"name\":\"Does Healthcare Contribute to Climate Change? | HEALTHdrum\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-22T16:27:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-24T20:53:23+00:00\",\"description\":\"Do patients and the healthcare business model contribute to climate change? Healthy lifestyle choices can lessen our healthcare consumption.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Does Healthcare Contribute to Climate Change?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"HEALTHdrum\",\"description\":\"Blog | Cost-transparent Routine Medical Care | HEALTHdrum\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"HEALTHdrum\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/HEALTHdrumLogo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/HEALTHdrumLogo.png\",\"width\":172,\"height\":76,\"caption\":\"HEALTHdrum\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HEALTHdrum-103735818167546\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/healthdrumapp\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/healthdrum_app\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/healthdrum\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/953d5fca0a0cb8ee1915ae9f4ed3741a\",\"name\":\"Bert Vorstman\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3af75bb2e908bd808de6943957e36c33?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3af75bb2e908bd808de6943957e36c33?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Bert Vorstman\"},\"description\":\"Dr. Vorstman did his chief residency at Jackson Memorial hospital in Miami, Florida. Subsequently, he completed fellowship training in Pediatric and Adult Reconstructive Urology at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. During his time there he also undertook NIH sponsored, pioneering research on \u201cUrinary Bladder Reinnervation\u201d earning him the honor of a Masters of Surgery Diploma through the University of Otago, New Zealand. Dr Vorstman returned to Miami to become a board-certified faculty member in the department of urology, Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami. Eventually, he left academic practice, moved north to Coral Springs and established Florida Urological Associates pa (www.urologyweb.com) in 1987. Dr. Vorstman is passionate about consumer-directed healthcare and helping men diagnosed with prostate cancer navigate the minefield of prostate cancer misinformation. After retiring and leaving colleagues to continue the urology practice, he became founder and CEO of a healthcare platform that connects buyers and sellers of routine, cash pay healthcare services - www.HEALTHdrum.com\/ Through this platform he also enables colleagues to reclaim their profession from health industry exploitation. Partial bibliography https:\/\/ascopost.com\/issues\/june-10-2016\/prostate-cancer-opinions-vary-on-gleason-scores-and-surgery\/ https:\/\/ascopost.com\/issues\/november-25-2020\/a-urologic-surgeon-assesses-the-current-state-of-prostate-cancer\/ https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/945928 https:\/\/urologyweb.com\/robotic-deception-prostate-cancer-hoax-p-5\/ https:\/\/bvorstman.medium.com\/prostate-cancer-treatment-deception-and-lies-30e23f17b749 https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/the-gleason-6-prostate-cancer\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Does Healthcare Contribute to Climate Change? | HEALTHdrum","description":"Do patients and the healthcare business model contribute to climate change? Healthy lifestyle choices can lessen our healthcare consumption.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Does Healthcare Contribute to Climate Change? | HEALTHdrum","og_description":"Do patients and the healthcare business model contribute to climate change? Healthy lifestyle choices can lessen our healthcare consumption.","og_url":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/","og_site_name":"HEALTHdrum","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HEALTHdrum-103735818167546","article_published_time":"2020-01-22T16:27:35+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-03-24T20:53:23+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":800,"url":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/priscilla-du-preez-tJ1uvdf68e0-unsplash-scaled-e1632779294904.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Bert Vorstman","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@healthdrumapp","twitter_site":"@healthdrumapp","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Bert Vorstman","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/"},"author":{"name":"Bert Vorstman","@id":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/953d5fca0a0cb8ee1915ae9f4ed3741a"},"headline":"Does Healthcare Contribute to Climate Change?","datePublished":"2020-01-22T16:27:35+00:00","dateModified":"2022-03-24T20:53:23+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/"},"wordCount":644,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Climate Change"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/","url":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/","name":"Does Healthcare Contribute to Climate Change? | HEALTHdrum","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-01-22T16:27:35+00:00","dateModified":"2022-03-24T20:53:23+00:00","description":"Do patients and the healthcare business model contribute to climate change? Healthy lifestyle choices can lessen our healthcare consumption.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/does-healthcare-contribute-to-climate-change\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Does Healthcare Contribute to Climate Change?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/","name":"HEALTHdrum","description":"Blog | Cost-transparent Routine Medical Care | HEALTHdrum","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"HEALTHdrum","url":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/HEALTHdrumLogo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/HEALTHdrumLogo.png","width":172,"height":76,"caption":"HEALTHdrum"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HEALTHdrum-103735818167546","https:\/\/twitter.com\/healthdrumapp","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/healthdrum_app\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/healthdrum\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/953d5fca0a0cb8ee1915ae9f4ed3741a","name":"Bert Vorstman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3af75bb2e908bd808de6943957e36c33?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3af75bb2e908bd808de6943957e36c33?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Bert Vorstman"},"description":"Dr. Vorstman did his chief residency at Jackson Memorial hospital in Miami, Florida. Subsequently, he completed fellowship training in Pediatric and Adult Reconstructive Urology at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. During his time there he also undertook NIH sponsored, pioneering research on \u201cUrinary Bladder Reinnervation\u201d earning him the honor of a Masters of Surgery Diploma through the University of Otago, New Zealand. Dr Vorstman returned to Miami to become a board-certified faculty member in the department of urology, Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami. Eventually, he left academic practice, moved north to Coral Springs and established Florida Urological Associates pa (www.urologyweb.com) in 1987. Dr. Vorstman is passionate about consumer-directed healthcare and helping men diagnosed with prostate cancer navigate the minefield of prostate cancer misinformation. After retiring and leaving colleagues to continue the urology practice, he became founder and CEO of a healthcare platform that connects buyers and sellers of routine, cash pay healthcare services - www.HEALTHdrum.com\/ Through this platform he also enables colleagues to reclaim their profession from health industry exploitation. Partial bibliography https:\/\/ascopost.com\/issues\/june-10-2016\/prostate-cancer-opinions-vary-on-gleason-scores-and-surgery\/ https:\/\/ascopost.com\/issues\/november-25-2020\/a-urologic-surgeon-assesses-the-current-state-of-prostate-cancer\/ https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/945928 https:\/\/urologyweb.com\/robotic-deception-prostate-cancer-hoax-p-5\/ https:\/\/bvorstman.medium.com\/prostate-cancer-treatment-deception-and-lies-30e23f17b749 https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/the-gleason-6-prostate-cancer\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3880,"href":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions\/3880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}