'Quamplurimi et quam aptisimi" (As many as possible of the very best)
I know that many of the health practitioners in this class follow the 4 stages outlined by Dra Zel in her speech: struggle, survival, success, and leaving a mark. She says that she is on the fourth and final stage probably where she wants to leave her mark in medicine and health care.
It is worth mentioning here the work of two Indians: Dr Govindappa Venkataswamy who established the McDonald of health of eye care in India the Aravind Eye Hospital. Their hospital employs cross subsidy (paying and non paying as in UST) where they manage to offer $5 cataract operation. They also operate a lens factory.
Dr. Devi Prassad Shetty on the other hand established the Narayana hospital where money is not a problem to those who cannot afford this. The primary concern is for patients to get well, and their staff: foundation, and other social workers will fund/get the funds to get the operation. His concern is that 90% of the world can not afford the procedure like dialysis, heart surgery, cancer surgery. His goal is to get the 90% get that needed care. His heart operation is $1,000 and his goal is to reduce to 3 figures; His hospital offer also the $10.00 dialysis
(From Al Jazeera feature on Indian hospital)
From Health Care Challenges
These are larger than life examples and hard acts to follow. Who says though that we can not.
Thank you very much Prof for sharing with us the videos depicting larger than life examples and hard acts to follow. I was greatly impressed by Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty. What he did to change the game in health industry was marvelous. His concept of "Economies of Scale" principle led him to spearhead the microhealth insurance for the farmers in association with the state government making quality health care accessible to the needy with a contribution of 5 rupees/month. The state government accepted this with great skepticism because they said you can't even buy something good with 5 rupees let alone have a heart surgery with 5 rupees/month, but Dr. Shetty proved them wrong as his health scheme became very successfully and is now being patterned globally and many countries have sought his help.
ReplyDeleteI believe this can be applied in our country if only the leaders of the Philippines will take a serious look at this. We need only on person with a heart and passion like Dr. Shetty to start this, and my dear Leaders, it could be one of us or better all of us to emulate him.
I like what Dr. Shetty said and I quote, " if you want to change the way things are, you have to keep walking, you have to make progress, and if you see something in you will succeed and in something you will fail and as long as your intention is to help mankind and convinced that I will succeed at the end of the day, but in the process lot of things which we never anticipate happen, something good, something bad, but then we have to keep walking because that is the only way we can reach our destination." Dr. Shetty has all it takes to be a very passionate and great Leader! Let us all strive to emulate him or other leaders we consider as our role models.
That is the right word Leader Dra. Suzette. Game changing. That is Leadership. If I will be given another life, or I will be reborn, I wish I will follow his path. In the Philippines. Dapat nag doctor din ako nuon.
DeleteDr. Venkataswamy's idea of following Mc Donald's economies of scale concept is applaudable and meritorious. His mission of eradication of needless blindness is selfless. Dr. Shetty's concern of making heart surgery affordable to many is likewise admirable. Both are good example of selfless leaders. I hope that we will have more doctors who will follow their footsteps. I am so happy that our doctors in the Leadership class are in the same direction. On the other hand, it saddens me that there are some doctors who are only after the money they make out of their chosen profession. Let us be inspired with the selfless contributions of these two Indian doctors. Thanks Prof for sharing their stories with us.
ReplyDeleteYes, in the MBAH program where I teach entrepreneurship to MDs I have repeatedly shown this example. We ask students to report on this. Remember the parable of the sower?
DeleteThank you Prof. for inspiring our medical practitioners, and us as well with these "best practices". I affirm our M.D. Leadership classmates who are responding positively to the call of authentic leadership. With their respective personal advocacy, there is no reason why our nation will not rise again.
ReplyDeleteI pray that they do. One of the comments of the Valedictorian of MBA Class of 2015 is that many health practitioners put profit motive ahead of humanitarian objectives
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