In my last column I wrote about the grand opening of Health City Cayman Islands.  The grand opening of HCCI at the end of February ushered in a new era of hospitals in this century.   Since then HCCI has opened its doors and is performing surgery on its first patients.  It is starting to deliver on the promise of compassionate, lower cost, higher quality health care for humanity.

In that last column I wrote about HCCI and the visionary behind it, Dr. Devi Shetty.  In this column I want to take a look at some …

Perhaps the most significant event in global health care for 2014 occurred on February 25.  This was the day that Health City Cayman Islands had it’s grand opening.  Health City is a new way to think of health care and health care delivery.  It has within it the power to change or at the least openly challenge the way Americans think about hospitals and major surgery.

The visionary behind HCCI is Dr. Devi Shetty.  Dr. Shetty is easily the most famous and transformative surgeon in India and one of the most recognized surgeons in the world.  He …

In 2010, I made the decision to write a book about the New Health Age.  Along with my co-author, Jonathan Fleece, we realized that the discussion about health care in America was being driven by fear, ignorance and manipulated by politicians.  Any discussion with these three components is a stupid conversation.  We decided to write an intelligent book to bring some intelligence to the discussion about the future of health care in America.  In late 2011, “The New Health Age:  The Future of Health Care in America” was published.

It was clear to us that certainly the United States …