Tag: Doctor

A collection of creative videos was recently brought to my attention and I'd like to share them here. They are created by Dr. Mark...

Thanks to my friends in the Michigan Quality System group, the internal Lean group at the University of Michigan Health System. They shared a video...

Before I head out on vacation, here is a reader question that I am sharing for your input.I'm sharing this with permission and I'm...

I was quoted in two articles that appeared in "Today's Hospitalist": "Discharging Mr. Wood: Time to get serious about waste" and "Standardized work: Improving quality by reducing...

My guest for episode #220 is somebody I've wanted to interview for a long time, Dr. Robert Wachter, one of the leading voices in...

When we introduce the idea of Lean to healthcare organizations, it's very common for somebody (often a senior physician) to say something like, "But we...

I recently saw an article about Avera Medical Group and Sanford Clinic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota: "Health systems learn to be lean." Avera McKennan...

My guest for episode #193 is Mark Jaben, MD, talking about our brains, Lean, and change. Mark has been a guest blogger for me...

A woman has the wrong side of her brain operated on. The headline features the hospital's name and the surgeon's name. It seems the...

Here's a video interview with Dr. Peter Pronovost, author of the book Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change...

I've re-read this article a number of times: "Cancer clinics are turning away thousands of Medicare patients. Blame the sequester." It's a sad situation -...

In recent years, there's been a movement away from having first-year residents work such long grueling hours - 24 hour shifts or longer, multiple...