The @billwaltonshow w/ Dr. Joshua Yamamoto
Cardiologist Dr. Joshua Yamamoto joins The Bill Walton Show for a conversation about the personal approach to healthcare
“Medicine is the relationship between a doctor and a patient. Healthcare takes on a much broader view,” Yamamoto states. “If you want to take care of yourself, you should have a doctor.”
Having a regular doctor and being on a first name basis with your doctor is key to engaging in personal healthcare that sees the individual human behind the patient and treats him as such as. Yamamoto admits that this kind of care is becoming increasingly difficult to provide as big pharmaceutical and insurance companies reduce patients to merely data and incentivize a single doctor seeing large numbers of patients.
Yamamoto and his wife, Dr. Kristin Thomas, explore the positive effects of personal healthcare on heart health in their book, “You Can Prevent a Stroke”. Outside of their regular practice, they are also advocates through the Foxhall Foundation for bridging the gap between academic medicine and practicing doctors, hoping to bring the advances in treatment in knowledge gained in academic institutions to the community and the practical findings and challenges of community doctors to the academic institutions.
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