[Mitworld] New: Paul Levy on Process Improvement, Rosensweig on the Global Harvest

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 17 | December 19, 2007
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[PROCESS IMPROVEMENT IN THE RARIFIED ENVIRONMENT OF ACADEMIC MEDICINE]

In this refreshingly honest talk on resistence to systemic change in
medicine, Levy tells the story of the stunning turnaround at the Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

SPEAKER:
Paul Levy
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/504/>

[QUOTE]
"Medicine remains for the most part a cottage industry. It's one to one
like the shoe repairman in Old Sturbridge Village, making shoes for
you...The nurse looks at you and treats you or the doctor does. Maybe a
consultant comes in, but it's one to one again. There's virtually
nothing about a medical education that teaches a systems approach to
problems."
--  Paul Levy


EVENT HOST: Engineering Systems Division <http://esd.mit.edu/>

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[CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE GLOBAL HARVEST]

In part 4 of this series, Cynthia Rosenzweig discusses climate change
and its affect on the global harvest.

SPEAKER:
Cynthia Rosenzweig
Senior Researcher, NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/503/>

[QUOTE]
"Despite posing tremendous challenges, climate change is a
transformative issue by which agricultural sustainability may be
achieved."
-- Cynthia Rosenzweig


EVENT HOST: Center for Global Change Science
<http://web.mit.edu/cgcs/www/>

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The Biology of the Language Faculty: Its Perfection, Past and Future

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