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More About This Title Escape Fire: Designs for the Future of Health Care
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Not content to simply define the problems with our flawed system, Berwick outlines new designs and suggests practical tools for change: name the problem, build on success, take leaps of faith, look outside of the medical field, set aims, understand systems, make action lists, and—the most fundamental of all—never lose sight of the patient as the central figure.
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Acknowledgments.
Introduction (Frank Davidoff, MD).
1. Kevin Speaks.
2. Buckling Down to Change.
3. Quality Comes Home.
4. Run to Space.
5. Sauerkraut, Sobriety, and the Spread of Change.
6. Why the Vasa Sank.
7. Eagles and Weasels.
8. Escape Fire.
9. Dirty Words and Magic Spells.
10. Every Single One.
11. Plenty.
About the Author.
About the Commentary Authors.
Index.
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— Parker J. Palmer, author, The Courage to Teach and Let Your Life Speak
"[Berwick's] target is a health care system that has evolved primarily to serve the needs and interests of those who work in the system— doctors, nurses, administrators, payors, insurers— rather than the needs and interests of patients."
— from the Introduction by Frank Davidoff