Can Technology Really Make Health Care Better?
I woke up one recent morning to the most amazing news: Amazon had bought One Medical Group, my primary care practice. I first discovered One Medical when my daughter, who lived in San Francisco, told me about this absolutely fantastic new primary care practice where if you just paid an annual $150 membership fee you got 24/7 access to medical treatment, including telemedicine, emailing your doctor, and Zoom visits — a lot of things that are commonplace now but weren’t in 2007 when One Medical was founded. Since health is my “hobby,” I petitioned its web site till One Medical…