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Excerpt:
While teaching at Rutgers University in the 1970s, as an assistant professor of history and sociology, my department chair asked me to teach the Sociology of Health Care Systems. (I was familiar with systems analysis, as I was formerly a captain in the Air Force, assigned to Systems Command.) It was believed at the time that the rising costs of health care were due to doctors' salaries, but it didn't take long to figure out that it was the high cost of diagnostic technology, even more than limited efforts for treatment. From this understanding, I eventually developed an interest in low cost diagnostic techniques and in treatments for disease without drugs and surgery.
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