Dr Atul Gawande oncology surgeon from Harvard medical hospital and medical school has become one stop info center about the practice of medicine in America.He is a unique doctor .He is a practitioner ,researcher and writer of medical systems.I just saw one of his interviews on c-span morning call in program.One of the rare programs with non partisan and clear straight talk on medicine.
Dr Gawande has written a book where he studied and documented how check lists can improve quality and care in medicine.I think the principals can be duplicated and used in any business.
Dr Gawande clearified that costs because of malpractice insurance ammount to 3 percent whichis quite high.He also said that because of increase in healthcare nation was loosing any progress in productivity.Bad systems of delivery are costing in money and health costs to the nation . He talks in a very calm and sober language.
Showing posts with label Harvard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harvard. Show all posts
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Monday, September 28, 2009
Take a free Harvard University course in Philosophy(I)
The first lecture is combination of two actual lectures.Professor ,author is Mr Michael Sandel who is teaching" Justice; whats right thing to do."He says it is explaining what we already know and believe.
The format of the enquiry is Socratatic and somewhat like a guided mute court arguments.Students learn from Aristotle,Kant ,Locke and Mills.
Lectures deal with many contemporary issues using the tools extended by the philosophers of the past and promoted by arguments of the young students (who by the way pay more than hundred dollars per lecture in Harvard (free to you ) only for watching in comfort of your chair.
1000 students attended this lecture at a cost of 100 thousand dollars to them.They did not pay this lecture as such .This is my calculation based on tuition fee divided by number of lectures attended by students per year .Actual figure may be higher as i did this calculation several years ago.
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It is wonderful presentation and easy to follow.I have not bought the materials .Hope they are downloadable.
Free is nice at a time when it seems all the media companies want to monetise (by our time or money)every thing which they have not even created.If any costs i will post.
http://wgbh.org/programs/ProgramDetail.cfm?programID=429
The format of the enquiry is Socratatic and somewhat like a guided mute court arguments.Students learn from Aristotle,Kant ,Locke and Mills.
Lectures deal with many contemporary issues using the tools extended by the philosophers of the past and promoted by arguments of the young students (who by the way pay more than hundred dollars per lecture in Harvard (free to you ) only for watching in comfort of your chair.
1000 students attended this lecture at a cost of 100 thousand dollars to them.They did not pay this lecture as such .This is my calculation based on tuition fee divided by number of lectures attended by students per year .Actual figure may be higher as i did this calculation several years ago.
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It is wonderful presentation and easy to follow.I have not bought the materials .Hope they are downloadable.
Free is nice at a time when it seems all the media companies want to monetise (by our time or money)every thing which they have not even created.If any costs i will post.
http://wgbh.org/programs/ProgramDetail.cfm?programID=429
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