{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Flanigan's Eco-Logic","title":"Human Nature Gets in the Way of Solving Big Problems","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1860,"description":"Dr. Barry Davis has had a distinguished career as a physician and bio-statistician. Having begun his academic career at MIT, and getting his MD from University of California at San Diego, and a PhD in applied mathematics at Brown University, he is now a Professor Emeritus at University of Texas School of Public Health. And recently, he has written a book titled, \"The Preventioneers: Diseases, Disasters, and the Discoveries that Changed the World.\" \nThe book begins with fire prevention. It was Benjamin Franklin who coined to term \"an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.\" Franklin was referring to fire prevention. He was a historian and struck by the Great Fire of London in 1666. That disaster led to change... building codes were established, as were fire departments, warning systems etc. In addition to his role as an inventor and journalist, Franklin became a firefighter.\nDr. Davis is board certified in medical prevention. His career focused on hypertension, on blood pressure, what he calls the silent killer. While there are means to prevent hypertension and its symptoms... heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, and more... still 80% of those with high blood pressure are not adequately treated. Despite ample awareness, treatments that work... the numbers of people not taking action are shocking.\nThe conversation digs into responsibility.. the responsibility of individuals, communities, and government action. Clearly, there is  a need to work together, things like traffic laws exemplify this. During the pandemic, clearly there was a need for vaccination and a need for isolation to present the spread of diseases. Some things we got very right... like the lightning speed roll-out of vaccines. But other things were not done well. We used to have a government office of Disease prevention.  \nHe makes the point that climate change is not unique, that adopting a prevention mindset could reshape our response. Climate change follows the same pattern seen in public...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7kUbICrzk0aEuZffrVBGprBuBqZJlmqp9h-fda_2pHg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM1MTQ0LzE3MTE1/NjgzMTctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}