Changing Healthcare Since ‘Mad Men’
As a health care wonk, one treat of watching “Mad Men” has been how the show’s creators have used the characters’ behaviors—and their interactions with the nation’s health system—to consistently tweak our nostalgic view of the 1960s. (When the show debuted, the plot was set in March 1960; by the time the sixth season wrapped up, “Mad Men” had advanced all the way to November 1968.)
Writing at the Advisory Board Daily Briefing in 2012, I took a deep dive into how health care’s changed since the days of Don Draper, interviewing doctors and nurses who began practicing 50 years ago and highlighting five examples from the show.
The macro-level transformation in health care is also captured in the charts below, which are excerpted from a massive infographic we created for the Daily Briefing. (For the full infographic, click here or scroll to the bottom of this post.)
“Mad Men” returns for its seventh season on AMC on Sunday night, with Don Draper, Joan Holloway, and the rest of the extended Sterling Cooper family back for an extended final go. As a health care wonk, one treat of watching “Mad Men” has been how the show’s creators […]
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