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Transcript: William M. Akutagawa

Current healthcare systems limit the amount of time physicians spend with patients

[Ainoa:]
If you look at family medication, and you look at the practice of health today, it is based upon the numbers you can see in a given time. And so if it’s 15, 20 minutes with the physician, that’s not enough time for them to absolve anything, and the physician doesn’t have enough time to educate.
[Lindberg:]
I agree completely.
[Ainoa:]
And so a system like ours with health education is crucial for them understanding when they get in there. The other part of it is how do they advocate for themselves if they don’t have that knowledge behind them? They can ask the doctors particular questions, you know, regarding their state of health, and that makes it a little bit better for them to understand, and so they don’t feel rushed going into a clinic and getting services.
[Lindberg:]
A traditional healer spends more time.
[Ainoa:]
Spend more time.