Friday, August 17, 2012

"Restaurant chains have managed to combine quality control, cost control, and innovation. Can health care?" - New Yorker

“Scaling good ideas has been one of our deepest problems in medicine. Regulation has had its place, but it has proved no more likely to produce great medicine than food inspectors are to produce great food. […] One study examined how long it took several major discoveries, such as the finding that the use of beta-blockers after a heart attack improves survival, to reach even half of Americans. The answer was, on average, more than fifteen years.”

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/13/120813fa_fact_gawande#ixzz23pRWUXwK

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