our own system

Hi there, I'm Drew Weilage and I'm working to make healthcare better for patients.

This is a blog with links to healthcare goings on, trends, and uncategorized interestingness as well as attempts to filter my own healthcare thinking through essay.

I am greatly aware of my idealistic, naive even, views on a number of topics. But frankly, I think healthcare is in dire need of more of the "what's possible/what could be" type of thinking. I'm greatly protective of my unabashed idealism but always open to reason and discourse about any of it.

This is round two of my blogging life, the first being archived here.

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“A lot of medical schools teach health policy, but they don’t really teach the complexities of what it takes to actually build effective, functioning, health care systems, clinics or hospitals.”

- Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim

Basically, they don’t teach implementation. Few educational programs do. What is, arguably, the most important skill on the job? Getting things done. And it takes an incredible amount of work to do just that.

Cool news out of Dartmouth (i.e., those Dartmouth people are up to it again) (the home of the oft-cited research of the Dartmouth Atlas): through an anonymous donation the college will create a Center for Health Care Delivery Science that will offer degree programs in healthcare delivery science and, more importantly, find ways to make healthcare delivery better.

Here is the story.

Here is a commentary.

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