Richard, start by telling us what led you to write this case. It's chock full of information, but also relevant, timely and compelling. Thank you both for joining me today.īrian Kenny: Really interesting case about Intermountain Healthcare. Together they co-chair the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator. Kathy Giusti is a senior fellow at Harvard Business School, and the founder of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. Richard Hamermesh is an expert on the business issues affecting health care policy and delivery. I'm your host Brian Kenny, and you're listening to Cold Call. Today we'll hear from professors Richard Hamermesh and Kathy Giusti about their case entitled, Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine. But now, there's someone looking out for them. Downwinders in Nevada, Idaho, and Utah, are still at greater risk for developing cancer. No one's sure of the full extent of the toll on human lives, but in 2000, the National Institutes of Health declared that 49,000 deaths could be directly linked to the testing.Īnd the effects linger on. The “downwinders,” as they came to be known, were the unsuspecting victims of radioactive fallout. Before long, leukemia and other rare diseases were showing up in clusters in communities all over southern Utah. It was the sheep of Iron County, Utah, who first showed symptoms of radiation sickness. Assured that they were a safe distance away from any fallout, tourists clamored to Sin City for dawn bomb parties, downing atomic cocktails while waiting for the spectacle. For four months, beginning in 1951, the United States military detonated atomic weapons 65 miles northwest of the Vegas strip. But there was a time when the flashes that lit the sky over the Nevada desert were anything but benign. Brian Kenny: When night falls in Las Vegas, Fremont Street lights up, awash in a canopy of 12.5 million LED lights and a 55,0000 watt sound system.
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