Not often I recommend an article from 2004 to read. But this
article by Dr. Atul Gawande leads to a new standard of excellence. Anyone with
a basic statics education is familiar with the bell curve. Most medicine is
successful in the middle of the curve. Sometimes treatment at the low end of
the curve.
Dr. Warren Warwick’s example at the end of the article shows
how you get off the chart medical treatment of cystic fibrosis. He made a study
of what it takes to do better than everyone else. He believed that excellence
came from seeing, on a daily basis, the difference between being 99.5-per-cent
successful and being 99.95-per-cent successful. Warwick’s combination of focus,
aggressiveness, and inventiveness is what makes him extraordinary.
“What the best may have, above all, is a capacity to learn and adapt—and to do so faster than everyone else.”
“What the best may have, above all, is a capacity to learn and adapt—and to do so faster than everyone else.”
The question is why do you want to be extraordinary?
What are you doing today to get there?
Are you in Dr. Warwick’s territory?
Are you in Dr. Warwick’s territory?
The Bell Curve
What happens when patients find out how good their doctors
really are?
The New Yorker
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