01-13-2009, 07:11 AM
During a summer internship with HMI last year, HMS student Eric Twerdahl researched the impact of HMI projects in Dubai and India on healthcare in their respective regions. Twerdahl met a vascular surgeon in Bangalore who has revised operating room practice”for example, sterilizing and reusing equipment, instead of using disposable items”to cut the cost per procedure. He met a cardiac surgeon in Mumbai who has pioneered open-heart surgery without general anaesthesia, using instead an epidural administered above the level of the heart. These innovations sharply increase access to care, but were unlikely to develop in the United States, where the healthcare system is much less responsive to cost. In this sense, says Twerdahl, œthe days of U.S. medicine thinking that it™s at the top of the pile are numbered.
source: http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/05/good-bye-to-hmi.html
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source: http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/05/good-bye-to-hmi.html
(last paragraph)
I liked the last line because its true.