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The Future of Doctors: Digital Tattoos and Cut-Price Care

03/12/19 • 21 min

The U.S. is home to 18 million health care workers. But how will our relationship with them change, and how will care, like online shopping, come to us? In this episode we explore operating rooms on flatbed trucks, transhumanism and how we'll pay for the future of health.

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