Keep Health in Play.
American healthcare was built to fix what's broken in front of you. It wasn't built to keep people from breaking in the first place — and it certainly wasn't built to design care around the lives people actually live. That's the bet this show is making.
Healthcare gets redesigned around the radius of a person's actual life. Not the other way around.
The kitchens. The sidewalks. The friends. The work. The places where real life happens. The clinic embeds in the community — not the other way around.
Some people think that's crazy. We think it's the only path forward. This show is where we think out loud about building it.
Three commitments. One thesis.
Everything in every episode comes back to these.
dual board certified
Dr. Cono is a board-certified family medicine and lifestyle medicine physician, licensed in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. Today he is the Chief Clinical Officer at Blue Zones™ Health — the company translating the principles from the five places on earth where people live measurably longer into a clinical model American healthcare can actually deliver.
He started in healthcare at nineteen, washing trays in a hospital dishroom at Baystate Medical Center in western Massachusetts. Twenty-five years later he has worked every level of American healthcare — UMass Medical School, family and preventive medicine residency at Loma Linda where he served as chief resident twice, market leadership at Landmark Health for complex in-home care, center medical direction at Oak Street Health, and adjunct teaching in preventive medicine at Loma Linda.
He holds an MD and a master's in health service administration. He has spent his career asking one question, in every setting that would let him: what would it actually take to keep people in play — not just alive, not just treated, but in the game of their own lives — for as long as possible, as well as possible, together?
Keep Health in Play is where he thinks out loud about it.
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