Escape Fire: A Movie Summary: Escape Fire

Escape Fire is a very well written, informative film about health care and the way it has

developed through the years. It starts out by explaining how our health care delivery system is

really just a money hungry machine. Our Health Care system, is a disease care system, that

wants you to keep coming back for more medicine or to have a procedure, but not for a get well

fix. It also shows the cost for our health care, compared to other countries. It shows some

interesting data like: the 3rd leading cause of death has been contributed to errors, and that 20%

of the population is responsible for 80% of the total health care costs, and much more. It does

explain how we can change things for the better, and does show an example of

One way is if a treatment is proven to work, based on all the necessary requirements, then we should use it. A good example of this that the movie pointed out was Acupuncture. If Acupuncture has been used to prevent pain while transporting Patients on an airplane, then why don’t we use it more that opioids, which have tremendous costs to our society. Also if we can change our diets to help prevent heart disease, prostate cancer, which has been proven by evidence based practice, then we should. Evidence Based Practice, will allow people to do the right thing. Doing the right thing requires changing a culture, and by that I mean the way we practice medicine. We must try to prevent disease before it happens, and this will be hard at first, because hardly anyone eats right, and exercises the way we should. We need to make positive health choices, and not be misled by gimmicks, or tricky marketing, but led by true evidence. We need to have corporate America except the same philosophy that, Safeway has done in the movie. Safeway made it easy for its employees’ to become healthy, as it stated that 70% of heath care costs are related to people 's behaviors. We need to seek the escape fire. We need to think outside the box. We need to do what has been proven to work through Evidence Based Practice. We need to have a way for health care to pay for outcomes, instead of the numbers of people it runs through its