The Covid Pandemic: Interface with the Healthcare System, the Economy, Race, Politics, and History

In this UCSF Medical Grand Rounds presentation (June 4, 2020), four world-renowned experts discuss the wide-ranging implications and challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic with regard to the healthcare system, the economy, race, politics, ethics, and history. What will the lasting changes be? What can we learn from history? The session is hosted by UCSF Department of Medicine chair Bob Wachter.

Program
Bob Wachter: Introduction
02:03 – A wide-ranging discussion on The Covid Pandemic: Interface with the Healthcare System, the Economy, Race, Politics, and History
• Sue Desmond-Hellmann, MD, past President of Product Development at Genentech, former UCSF Chancellor, and immediate past-CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Ian Morrison, PhD, author, consultant, healthcare futurist, and past President of the Institute for the Future
• Mark Smith, MD, MBA, founding President and CEO of the California Health Care Foundation, and former Executive Vice President of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
• Abraham Verghese, MD, Senior Associate Chair at Stanford Medicine and best-selling author of Cutting for Stone
01:13:49 – Bob Wachter: Closing

See previous Covid-19 Medical Grand Rounds:
• May 28: Update on Covid-19: Testing, ICU Practices and Outcomes at ZSFG, and the Experience of Elders in the Covid-19 Pandemic
• May 21: Update on Covid-19: Epidemiology, Treatments and Vaccines, Thromboembolic Complications, and the Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome Affecting Children
• May 14: Covid-19 Update: The ICU Experience in New York, the UCSF Mission and Bolinas Community Studies, and the Uses and Limitations of Antibody Testing
• May 7: Update on Covid-19: Epidemiology, Virology, Prospects for Drugs and Vaccines, and UCSF’s Experience in the Navajo Nation

[yeuenkim]

Thank you so much, incredibly valuable GR series (UCSF & Stanford) on COVID-19 overall, but especially these speakers for how thoughtful and complementary their work has been, esp for vulnerable populations in the States and abroad. Sharing one way to impact disparities & determinants/health outcomes: if you can, please vote!

[anthonychan]

Inspirational and hopeful. I have finished this more humble and mindful of my thoughts and actions not only as a physician but more importantly a person.

[modevlin]

Dr. Wachter - NOT a crazy tweeter. Thanks for your updates! Uplifting and educational.

[cerdh]

What about the gig economy workers and entrepreneurs? That do not work for large companies? Ie 3-5 people companies. Membership healthcare plans directly with MDs. Insurance plans only for major medical emergencies. The healthcare insurance company pays the clients to stay healthy. Ie You workout, have less fat eat healthy, stress management & good sleep. MDs become more like healthcare coaches, less writing Rx and more individualized care. Medicine going small & local. Not huge conglomerates... it works. Like dentistry. A patient pays the MD 2-3K a year, and the money rolls over to the next year like an HSA.

[NoelLH]

Thanks so much for this all! I have zero knowledge in this area and am not in the US, and still found it fascinating and relevant and important and hopeful

[cerdh]

Thank you Susan, this is exactly how I have felt!

[alphadork]

What was the YouTube video that Dr. Smith recommends at about 1:12:45? The name was garbled - was it Trevor Noah?

[dinahkcm]

I totally agree re this being a great public service, thank you! big issues indeed

[denisdaly]

Nice broad discussion. Medicine encapsulates all those areas.