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>> Well, I'm David Adelson, I'm a pediatric dermatologist
by trade and work at the University of Oklahoma.
I'm very excited about the potential that we're half
and using what the material that we're getting
at the program here at Dartmouth
and improving the healthcare in our community.
>> I am Tom Adelson, I'm David's younger brother,
I'm a state senator
from Oklahoma also the former secretary of health.
And I also, like David really enjoy the program here.
It's just a fantastic curriculum, fantastic professors
and what I'm learning is a lot
of application at the policy level.
Do we invest in medical education?
How do we do that?
I know David says yes but I'm not sure all the professors
would agree here.
And another issues, you know,
our Medicaid program is the second largest budgetary item.
So, how do you spend that money, how do you pay for performance,
it takes about quality and cost we're learning about.
And I think for me personally this programs are really good
because when I transition back to the private sector,
I want to continue working in health care particularly
on the pair of side, so it's really been a
tremendous experience.
>> And it's been fun because basically, as a clinician
and as a public policy person,
we actually take the same classes
and we'd learn the same things and we actually have a lot
that we can share which each from our own perspectives.
This programs matters to us
because we have particular problems in our--
in North Eastern Oklahoma in terms of access to care.
And this again is a great marriage between those
who are interested in policy and those
that are basically clinicians who are on the ground.
>> And I think that's kind of what drove me to get excited
about the program is that try to help solve the problems
that we have in terms of the disparities if--
in health care both in outcomes and access.
>> Yeah, I agree and problems in Tulsa or in Oklahoma,
there are the same across the nation
and I guess really interesting here economist and clinicians.
Here at Dartmouth say, you know,
people don't know what they're buying.
They don't know they're getting in good care or bad care,
what it cost and why is that?
So, it's kind of fun, actually I've even listen to some
of the big back and forth here at the faculty
about how do you build a free market
or how do you build a market and healthcare can be done
and those are the questions that I think people,
all of the country want to know that is such an enormous
for the policy challenge that it's really fun to learn
from a variety of perspectives.
>> And then I would agree that both the exciting things
in our class, we've got physicians,
we've got administrators, we've got people in public policy
and the professors coming from also backgrounds in terms
of health economics, business and epidemiology
as well as clinical care.
So it's exciting to get everybody
from different backgrounds interested
in solving the same problem.
>> Everyone has a variety of experiences and perspectives
and the course has been really good
about incorporating all those different experiences
and having I think really a rich dialogue.
Besides, it's really fascinating.
>> And it's been fun to go to school with my brother.
[Laughter]
>> Yes.