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NHS Healthcare Organisation Looks To The Future
A doctor at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham does his rounds on the wards on June 14, 2006 in Birmingham, England.
Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Journalist and best-selling author T.R. Reid travelled the world to write "The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care." He spoke at the Commonwealth Club of California about his new book.

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A doctor does rounds
A doctor at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham does his rounds on the wards on June 14, 2006 in Birmingham, England.
Christopher Furlong/Getty Images