RT Book, Section
A1 Inozu, Bahadir
A1 Chauncey, Dan
A1 Kamataris, Vickie
A1 Mount, Charles
SR Print(0)
ID 1150170111
T1 Preface
T2 Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071761628
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1150170111
RD 2024/04/19
AB On  November  16,  1960,  at  3:00  A.M.,  I  was  being  strangled  by  my  umbilical  cord.  A  doctor  asked  how  my  mother  was  feeling.  She  explained  that  she  was  feeling  better  after  some  minor  discomfort  she  had  been  experiencing.  Fortunately,  the  doctor  decided  to  check  my  fetal  heartbeat  in  utero  just  in  case.  The  doctor  determined  that  my  heartbeat  was  extremely  slow  and  that  I  was  about  to  die.  The  doctor  rushed  my  mother  to  the  operating  room  for  an  emergency  cesarean  section.  My  life  was  saved.  I  am  thankful  that  the  system  worked  in  this  instance.  Many  other  babies  have  not  been  as  fortunate.  In  fact,  witnessing  the  preventable  deaths  of  two  babies  was  so  painful  that  it  triggered  a  career  change  and  a  passion  to  improve  healthcare  processes  and  systems  for  one  of  this  book’s  coauthors.