This Public Health Conversation Starter features Dr. Martin Shapiro in conversation with BUSPH Dean Sandro Galea. Dr. Shapiro talks about his recent book The Present Illness: American Health Care and Its Afflictions and discusses the disfunction in the American health care system.

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Speakers

Martin Shapiro

Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine; Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Public Health, UCLA

Martin Shapiro

Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine; Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Public Health, UCLA

Martin F. Shapiro, MD;CM, PhD, MPH, is a physician, health services researcher, and a Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research for 25 years. Dr. Shapiro is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He is the author of “Getting Doctored: Critical Reflections on Becoming a Physician” and “The Present Illness: American Health Care and Its Afflictions,” released in January.