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Li Shizhen, a proponent of Neo-Confucianism, believed ‘that cur[ing] disease[s] is like waiting until one is thirsty before digging a well’. 

During this time Li Shizhen explains, that ‘the doctor would be paid as long as the patient was healthy.’

Dr. Ashwin Naik

Li Shizhen
Money

”Societies must find a way to separate day-to-day medical decisions from financial incentives. When we incentivize doctors to make people ill, it is a matter of time before the whole population will be declared ill one way or the other.”

Dr Kamal Kumar Mahawar

what if we paid doctors to keep us healthy?
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