Americans dealing with advanced illness are at risk of overtreatment and undertreatment of their conditions because powerful and silent incentives are often driving their healthcare, rather than their own unique values and goals. After 38 years of practicing medicine inside the world's elite healthcare institutions, and as a survivor of my own advanced illness, this is my foremost concern for current and future generations of patients and their families.

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