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Myra Ahmad and the Health Entrepreneur’s Case Against One-Size-Fits-All Medicine Before Myra Ahmad was a founder, she was a researcher trying to answer a clinical question: why do patients with obesity keep failing to get the care they need? That research, conducted during her MD at the University of Washington School of Medicine and through positions at MIT’s Koch Institute and UCSF, is where her case against one-size-fits-all medicine actually starts. The company came later, as the applied answer to a diagnosis she’d already reached. What she found in that research was structural. Patients with obesity were bouncing between bariatric surgeons, endocrinologists, and primary care providers. None of them were treating the underlying disease. “Our healthcare system is optimized for billing codes rather than clinical outcomes,” she has said. “Patients bounce from specialist to specialist, yet no one seems to ‘own’ their care.” That’s a clinical observation before it...