Escape Fire: Designs for the Future of Health Care

Spanning a decade (1992-2002), these speeches echo the theme that our health care system needs fundamental change and a revolutionary new design. Throughout the book, Berwick identifies innovations and ideas from a number of surprising sources? a girls' soccer team, a sinking ship, and the safety standards at NASA. Escape Fire takes its title from the 1949 Mann Gulch tragedy in which thirteen young firefighters were trapped in a wildfire on a Montana hillside. The firefighter's leader, Wag Dodge, devised a creative solution for avoiding the encroaching fire. He burned a patch of grass and lay down in the middle of the scorched earth. His team refused to join him, and most perished in the fire. Dodge survived. Berwick applies the lessons learned from the catastrophe to our ailing health care system? we must not let ingrained processes obstruct life-saving innovation.

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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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-19-2006; Remarkable, inspiring, and wonderful but occassionally painful to read.; A wonderful book told with humility, intelligence, warmth, anger and knowledge.It presents the text of Don Berwick's annual talks at IHI's (Institute for Healthcare Improvement) National Healthcare Forum.This is a highly reccommended...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-06-2004; Outstanding; Escape Fire is collection of compelling speeches by one of America's leading crusaders for health care quality and patient safety - Don Berwick, MD, founder and president of the Boston-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-19-2006; Remarkable, inspiring, and wonderful but occassionally painful to read.; A wonderful book told with humility, intelligence, warmth, anger and knowledge.It presents the text of Don Berwick's annual talks at IHI's (Institute for Healthcare Improvement) National Healthcare Forum.This is a highly reccommended...; read full review | report as inappropriate