Time for local medical schools to add cost efficiency to the curriculum?
With the health care "market" dominated by state and federal bureaucracies and politicians - and with even pharmacies getting into health care, shouldn't doctors need to pay more attention to such things as improving the efficiencies of their care? Beth Israel Deaconess CEO Paul Levy wonders:
When will the thoughtful deans of our medical schools take on the concept of introducing the science of care delivery as a major focus of the curriculum, so that their faculty and new generations of doctors come to believe that field to be as interesting as the study of disease, diagnosis, and therapies? The opportunity exists for leadership opportunities for those universities that pave the way in this arena.




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