You are invited to join us for a lunchtime discussion: Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
When: October 1st, 2024; 11:30am – 12:30 pm EDT
Where: CVC 217, United States Capitol
Lunch will be provided. The first 60 staffers to register and attend will receive a copy of Dr. Makary’s book Blind Spots.
When modern medicine issues recommendations based on good scientific studies, it shines. Conversely, when modern medicine is interpreted through the harsh lens of opinion and edict, it can mold beliefs that harm patients and stunt research for decades. The event — a discussion between Dr. Marty Makary and Paragon’s President Brian Blase, PhD — will showcase examples of when medical consensus was wrong and how medical recommendations can be influenced by policymaking.
Please feel free to share this invite with any congressional staffer who may be interested in attending.
About the participants:
Dr. Marty Makary is a New York Times bestselling author and health care expert at Johns Hopkins University. He writes for The Wall Street Journal and served in leadership at the World Health Organization. Marty is the recipient of the 2020 Business Book of the Year Award for his most recent book, The Price We Pay, which has been described by Steve Forbes as “A must-read for every American.”
Brian Blase, Ph.D., is the President of Paragon Health Institute. Brian was Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the White House’s National Economic Council (NEC) from 2017-2019, where he coordinated the development and execution of numerous health policies and advised the President, NEC director, and senior officials. Brian guided the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s health care and entitlement program oversight and investigation efforts from 2011 to 2014, and then served as the Senate Republican Policy Committee’s health policy analyst from 2014 to 2015.
