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Escape Fire Theme
“Escape Fire” has given me a new perspective on the current healthcare system we have. Within the movie, there was one major theme that strongly stuck with me: the current healthcare system pays more to get less.
Dr. Steven Nissen said in the film, “When medicine became a business we lost our moral compass.” To be ‘successful’ in this field it is required that you play the game it has laid out. Because medicine is a business, doctors do what the game tells them to and not follow their moral path on what should be done. Many doctors know that they should treat the whole person and not just treatments but when the game tells them they need to get their productivity up they have to do so. I realize that many healthcare providers are stuck in

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