ABC News(NEW YORK) One of the most important aspects of medicine is the relationship between a doctor and their patient, according to physician and Yale School of Medicine professor F. Perry Wilson. However, Wilson said that relationship has been strained in recent years and has led to complications in treating people. Wilson spoke with ABC News Live Tuesday about his new book, How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy, and gave tips on how people can improve this relationship. ABC NEWS LIVE: So it's January. Everybody has their ideas of getting healthy, and there are a lot of tips and tricks for that. You point actually, though, to the medical system itself is kind of being responsible for some of those gimmicks, if you will. DR. F. PERRY WILSON: Yeah, well, part of the problem is that people are pushed away from [the] medical system and from good knowledge because a lot of times the health system itself is failing to meet their
(NEW YORK) One of the most important aspects of medicine is the relationship between a doctor and their patient, according to physician and Yale School of Medicine professor F. Perry Wilson. However, Wilson said that relationship has been strained in recent years and has led to complications in treating people. Wilson spoke with ABC
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omicron variant is rapidly spreading across the country. the alert comes amid an official drop in cases and as the government begins dismantling many of its restricted zero covid policies. just today, authorities scrapped one of its covid infection tracking apps. dr. f. perry wilson is an associate professor at the yale school of medicine. he also wrote a book how medicine works and when it doesn t. thank you so much for joining us. listen. we know that china s trying to portray this as a plan that they had in the works and the reason they re lifting some of these restrictions is because they say this is a milder variant. we know that s not true because they don t have the proper steps there waiting for these people as these factors are going to be lifted. they don t have the vaccines and they don t have hospitals ready. how concerned are you about what we could end up seeing in the next few weeks in that country? thanks, bianna. i m quite concerned. china as a country probably has