Walmart Heiress Opens Medical School with a Focus on Preventative Medicine

Walmart Heiress Opens Medical School with a Focus on Preventative Medicine

Walmart Heiress Opens Medical School with a Focus on Preventative Medicine The Alice L. Walton School of Medicine building – credit, Timothy Hursley, Courtesy of Alice L. Walton School of Medicine In Arkansas, a new medical school has just opened that aims to train a new generation of doctors on preventative medicine and whole-health principles. It was dreamed of and financed by arguably the world’s wealthiest woman—a Walmart heiress whose personal struggles with illness and the incentive-based system of American ‘sick-care’ kindled a desire for change, especially in her own rural community. The Alice L. Walton School of Medicine received 2,000 applications from hopeful young future doctors around the country, accepting only 48 to come and study at the Bentonville campus. Anyone who raises an eyebrow at alternative approaches to medicine can close the article now, because the curriculum includes art and cooking classes, gardening and horticulture—all tailored to engender a perspective of c…