Riding In Cars With Researchers

Nothing happens in healthcare without research.  Nothing happens, no new innovations in healthcare happens, without the clinical trial process.  If you invent the cure for cancer today, it will be 20 years before it reaches patients who desperately need it.  And that is way too long!  The majority of that time is wasted on struggling to find patients for research trials.  This is largely due to the fact that neither patients nor physicians are aware of the trials being conducted.  A recent cardiology trial got downgraded as a result the results will be weaker than they could have been.  And this was strictly due to the fact that they could not find enough patients for the research trial after 7 years of trying!  We need to fix that!  Without the patients, new innovations and treatments never happen.