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Friday, August 24, 2012

Lessons from the Cheesecake Factory

If you haven't seen it yet, Dr. Atul Gawande has another great New Yorker article on healthcare.  This time, he does on deep-dive on the super-efficient restaurant chain, Cheesecake Factory, and basically talks about how healthcare is....well, nothing like that.  Click here for the full article (warning; it's long!)

Outside of getting an insider's guide to the wonderful world of Cheesecake Factory operations, I like the story he tells about his mom getting a total knee replacement...you get a sense of the high variation in healthcare, among and even within hospitals....and how some forward-thinking doctors were able reduce variation and give his mother some high-quality healthcare!

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