Jillian Interview Part 2

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0:00 Right. We're turning. Yeah. My whole goal is to apply blockchain technology to break down some of the silos that we have to increase some of the efficiency. And I will do that in medicine. I mean, I want that system to be better. and then you know as much as I can I've got X amount of years not even promised but as much as I can I want to like take this technology and it's not a it's not like the magic pill for everything but where it's like and we talked about it so much this week like leapfrogging where we can leapfrog I want us to leapfrog where it makes the most sense I mean everything is not going to make sense you don't just slap the blockchain on things and things become better.

0:50 But, but I definitely think it'll work with some things when we talk about digital identities and how we attribute certain qualities to our online identity, like, all of that stuff could be leveraged for like the betterment of the entire ecosystem of the Bahamas, like every single small ecosystem and big ecosystem and the overall system. And I want to start off with, I mean, I'm already here on the finance side, but I want to move to medicine. That's how I will go back to medicine. I'm not going to be doing surgery. I haven't done any of that since 2016. So I probably should not be cutting into anyone anytime soon.

1:32 Yeah, well, I think that's incredible You know, something I actually have given some thought to Is, you know, like, the world of medicine in the States Is very corporate, you know And, like, people can advertise medicines in the U.S. Like most other places you cannot And I'm very curious to see, you know How decentralization of that corporate medicine world You know, will reshape the incentives And the kinds of ways that we pursue health care I think health care in the U.S. is ripe for disruption I have to say I think there's a lot of people who have a lot of grievances And so it's super dope to hear

1:57 That's something that you're interested in as well here And, yeah, I think this has been a beautiful conversation Yeah, just one thing on the medicine thing Yeah, please I had this experience where, I mean, when I realized why we treat people in certain ways in the hospital not here in the Bahamas, but where I studied I realized that there were quotas It's, you know, you don't want to go too far over the surgery quota so you're gonna treat people with like you know pharmaceuticals and then you realize a couple months later that pharmaceutical companies incentivize the doctors or you know and and it's the system that we we are all learning about and and how it's you know it could be really detrimental

2:47 to the community's health right and and my thought is we have the ability now when we put AI together blockchain together and in some ways like when you slap blockchain on AI it's necessary to slap blockchain on AI we need that immutability right but basically like I feel like I feel like there are ways to circumvent the corruption or circumvent the controls that have been put in place to manage financial risk when we're trying to manage individuals health risk like there's no way that a financial risk should take precedence over a person's health and when I see that we choose not to do surgery because we can go with pharmaceuticals and hold it at bay

3:35 until we have more quota for surgery because surgery costs the hospital more money and decrease the margins, then it's just kind of like, yeah, no, I would like to see that somebody who has who's at risk for X, Y, Z can actually get the right treatment, not based on quotas, not based on there's so much there that also is wrapped into research. And you know what? I'm going to say this one part, too. I think medicine is there's so much gatekeeping around medicine that leaves black people disadvantaged If you don't have a black researcher, if you don't have a black doctor, their mindset is not to research something that doesn't impact them, that they don't know about, something that they're not exposed to.

4:30 But when your aunts and uncles have diabetes or high blood pressure or something that's prevalent here is breast cancer, ovarian cancer, when you see people around you, your age, becoming afflicted with these diseases, then you're more inclined to want to do something. That's why I went into medicine That's another reason why Learning about BRCA 2 and BRCA 1 And how aggressive these things are In the Bahamas specifically You kind of go, well somebody needs to solve for that Somebody needs to figure that out And then you realize that Oh, nobody's really trying to figure it out I mean, granted there, people have But I'm just using it as an example

5:08 You know, you realize that A small community Where the infrastructure doesn't exist where not as many people are impacted on a much larger scale, you won't find people doing like