As a historian of premodern Japan, Alessandro Poletto has studied its healing experts. Both literature and historical records demonstrate that the boundaries between what are often called ‘religion’ and ‘medicine’ were indistinct.
Dr. Jeffrey R. Dugas developed a procedure that cut recovery time to as little as nine months for some baseball pitchers with torn elbow ligaments. He envisions more innovations within five-to-seven years.
Changes brought in with the new model could discourage family doctors in family health organizations and networks from doing emergency and hospitalist work, critics say.