Monday, December 06, 2004

Tom Peters on Health Care - What need's to be done? (Part 2)

Tom opens his post with:

"Anyone who cares in the least about a loved one, or their own well-being, must ... MUST!!!!!!!!!!!! ... read/absorb/inhale Dr (surgeon) Atul Gawande's "The Bell Curve: What Happens When Patients Find Out How Good Their Doctors Are?" in the New Yorker/12.06.2004. It is simply the best-most profound health"care" article* I have ever read ... by a long shot.

(*Until patient care & patient safety & outcomes measurement & physician-acute care center accountability improve dramatically, I vow to spell h_____c___ as you see above: health"care.") (I also now call hospitals "killing fields" ... e.g., recent stats show an unnecessary hospital death in the U.S. every 2 minutes, 38 seconds.)"

Read the remainder and then answer "What need's to be done?"


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