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So the day is finally here and I\u2019m about to embark on my 2015 Eisenhower Fellowship. I\u2019m typing this on the plane from Sydney to Philadelphia via San Francisco.<\/p>\n
I’m trying not to succumb to the American food environment, so hope to\u00a0be more conscious about what I put in my mouth. Part of this will involve me taking photos of what I eat, to wit, my first meal of the trip (I didn’t eat the bread roll):<\/p>\n Transit\u00a0Details:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n I’m coming around to the view that with a few exceptions, there are generally no people, just bad incentives. However, I also contend that\u00a0these bad incentives have resulted in\u00a0the world\u2019s healthcare systems letting down the populations they are bound to serve.\u00a0Fixing doctors\u2019 incentives, as the US is seeking to do, will only be just part of the fix, with hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, prosthesis manufacturers etc. also in time having to participate in\u00a0value-based payment models.<\/p>\n In this context, my Fellowship will\u00a0focus on two themes:<\/p>\n After discussing the Fellowship with Australian Eisenhower Alumni, I\u2019m persuaded that the experience will be transformative, but not for the reasons I had assumed. Despite the privilege, honour and compelling subject matter associated with the Fellowship, I\u2019m reliably informed that I\u2019ll get at least as much (if not more) from my fellow Eisenhower Fellows (who I\u2019ll be meeting face to face in just a few hours) and the people and places I visit, as I will from the ideas we exchange and discuss. As such, I\u2019m going to use this blog to support a discipline around the contemporaneous capture of the various experiences during and beyond the Fellowship.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll be accompanied on the last three weeks of the Fellowship by my wife Yan Li, who has been in Singapore awaiting the arrival of her partner visa after our marriage last year. She\u2019ll be returning to Sydney with me at the conclusion of the Fellowship which is very exciting.<\/p>\n Many people have provided inspiration and encouragement at various stages leading up to and including the fellowship \u2013 family, friends, soon to be fellow EF alumni, and my colleagues at work who are covering for me in my absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So the day is finally here and I\u2019m about to embark on my 2015 Eisenhower Fellowship. I\u2019m typing this on the plane from Sydney to Philadelphia via San Francisco. I’m trying not to succumb to the American food environment, so hope to\u00a0be more conscious about what I put in my mouth. Part of this will … Continue reading Day Zero<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ef.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ef.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ef.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ef.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ef.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ef.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.ef.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ef.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ef.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ef.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"WP_20150405_007\"](\"http:\/\/www.ef.panicola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/WP_20150405_007.jpg\")
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