abstract:David Kaiser is an American physicist and historian of science. He is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), head of its Science, Technology, and Society program, and senior lecturer in the department of physics.
What a spectacular looking crowd here. (Laughter.) I want to start by thanking David Rubenstein, Michael Kaiser, and the Kennedy Center Trustees, and everyone who has made the Kennedy Center such a wonderful place for so many people for so many years.
"In the fee-for-service days, there was a very perverse system that rewarded doctors for doing way too much medicine, " says Dr. David Lawrence, chairman and CEO of California's huge, and nonprofit, Kaiser Permanente.