Obama appointee Don Berwick - What Patient Centred Care Really Means

[mucifer]

Run time: 03:06 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSauhroFTpk   Posted on YouTube: July 04, 2009 By YouTube Member: dapspro Views on YouTube: 651   Posted on DU: March 28, 2010 By DU Member: mucifer Views on DU: 550

 
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama plans to nominate Donald Berwick, a Harvard professor and specialist in patient safety, to lead the agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid, according to two administration officials.

The top post at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will be one of the most critical to implementing the president's health overhaul that became law this past week. The post has been vacant for more than three years.

Dr. Berwick runs the Boston-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement and is a pediatrics and health policy professor at Harvard University. His focus has been to improve patient safety by applying more systemized procedures to the medical field. He has also worked as an executive at a Massachusetts health maintenance organization.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303737704575148503748287716.html?mod=googlenews_wsj


He seems to be a great choice.

[napi21]

1. Let him be one of the recess apartments/ nt

[mucifer]

2. recess apartments? You must be sleepy.

I don't think he wants to be an apartment :)

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Maybe he needs one... K&R.

:shrug: ;)

[Drunken Irishman]

4. Hey, if I get a free apartment out of it, I'll take the job!

[gblady]

5. he sounds great....

speaking of the human dignity which so often flies out the window in the medical community.

[bobbolink]

6. Thank you so much for posting this! Recommended and bookmarked!

He so eloquently expresses not only what so many of us fear about being a patient, but for me, he is expressing very well the need for dignity all poor and homeless people ALSO need.

I wish everyone could understand that THIS is exactly what so many homeless people resent and rebel against in "shelters", and why so many poor people have experienced their very spirits being broken.

If we are to be "Strong", then we must be treated with dignity and respect!