Remaking American Medicine - PBS

[Harrison]

REMAKING AMERICAN MEDICINE is a four-part television series for PBS that follows pioneering individuals struggling to fix our broken health care system.

PROGRAM 1 - SILENT KILLER profiles individuals who are committed to fixing a health care system that is estimated to kill up to 98,000 people a year.

PROGRAM 2 - FIRST DO NO HARM focuses on efforts to eliminate hospital-acquired infections and medication errors.

PROGRAM 3 - THE STEALTH EPIDEMIC looks at groundbreaking efforts to create effective chronic disease management programs.

PROGRAM 4 - HAND IN HAND shows how a unique partnership between patients, families and providers is transforming a teaching hospital.

See more & find your local TV program times:

http://www.pbs.org/remakingamericanmedicine/

[Justin]

I've been watching this series--very, very well done. This series is a must watch!

Justin

[Harrison]

I saw one 30 minute segment last night that was really interesting. It focused on a Pittsburgh hospitals' efforts to eradicate the MSRA bug, something we talked about here. It seems one motivated doctor was really able to change the system (competition between hospitals, building a “business case,” etc.) and beat the bugs! It was great to see heroes in the making…

Recently, while working out at the health club, I ran into an exec from London. He was explaining how serious the MRSA bug was there – in some case, some hospitals were shutting down because of MRSA! Maybe our British members can comment.

Any way, to continue hijacking this topic, you can read up on MSRA on this past topic here.

[Harrison]

This one is on tonight, 10:00 PM for folks in the northeast on channel 2:

PROGRAM 3 - THE STEALTH EPIDEMIC looks at groundbreaking efforts to create effective chronic disease management programs.