America Has Disease Care, Not Health Care: Dr. Jingduan Yang

American Thought Leaders

Jan Jekielek

Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

“In America, we really don’t have a health care system, even though we call everything ‘health’ insurance, ‘health’ care, and this and that,” says Dr. Jingduan Yang.

“We’re not healthy as a nation because we allocate all resources trying to deal with consequences of problems or disease, rather than to prevent [them] and find the root causes that cause those problems,” he says.

Yang is a specialist in psychiatry and integrative medicine, and is a fifth-generation practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine. He’s the CEO of Northern Medical Center and founder of the Yang Institute of Integrative Medicine.

Western medicine could learn a lot from the approach of Chinese medicine, he says, which emphasizes prevention before problems become structurally damaging and looking at every part of the body as part of an integrated system.

“In Chinese medicine, every organ is connected. ... Therefore, there’s no way you could address any part of the body’s issue without looking at the whole system,” Yang says.

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0:00.0	Do you know how many people died in hospital due to medical era?
0:05.0	In the United States, it's over 100,000 people a year.
0:09.0	Dr. J.D. Yang is a specialist in psychiatry and integrative medicine,
0:13.0	and is a fifth-generation practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine.
0:17.0	A lot of things Chinese medicine emphasize is prevention.
0:21.6	It's treatments before the problem become structurally damaging.
0:28.6	You should help people with high blood pressure before they're developing the stroke.
0:34.6	He's the CEO of Northern Medical Center and founder of the Young Institute of Integrative Medicine.
0:40.3	If you ask a doctor today, what do you do every day?
0:43.3	Besides prescribing medicine, they didn't do much else.
0:46.3	So it's a shame.
0:48.3	This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kelluk.
0:51.3	Dr. J.D. Yang, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.
0:57.5	Thank you for having me.
0:59.7	America's in an unusual situation.
1:03.3	Americans are very unhealthy.
1:05.3	At the same time, they spend incredible amounts on health care.
1:09.5	What's really going on?
1:11.6	Well, it simply put that in America, we really don't have a health care system, even though
1:19.6	we call everything, health insurance, health care, and this and not.
1:24.6	But if you look at what we're doing for our patients, we're really trying to
1:29.3	managing their disease and dealing with the crisis. So as far as health, and nobody really
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