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Donald Berwick Quotes

We are guests in our patients' lives.

"Patient Reviews: Putting Doctors on the Examining Table" by Mark Britton, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2011.

Some is not a number. Soon is not a time.

Donald M. Berwick (2013). “Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It”, p.47, John Wiley & Sons

Right now, we are doing it blindly.

"Rethinking Comparative Effectiveness Research". Interview with Katherine T. Adams, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. June, 2009.

The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.

"The Triple Aim: Care, Health, And Cost" by Donald Berwick, Thomas W. Nolan and John Whittington in "Health Affairs", Volume 27, No. 3 (pp. 759-769), May/June 2008.

I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.

Nhs
Donald M. Berwick (2013). “Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It”, p.158, John Wiley & Sons