tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post2347856249748210230..comments2024-03-26T00:25:34.026-04:00Comments on Not Running a Hospital: Pronovost and Conway share value and valuesPaul Levyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17065446378970179507noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32053362.post-61289302278801452062012-03-07T05:25:03.807-05:002012-03-07T05:25:03.807-05:00Although trained to scientific skepticism in medic...Although trained to scientific skepticism in medicine, I have been impressed, as an avid football fan, how the sheer belief of the players that they can win, late in the game against daunting odds, often produces a win despite those odds. Dr. Pronovost's post, which also invokes Susan Boyle, makes a similar point:<br /><br />" Sometimes we listen to those little voices whispering: You cannot do this. Yet when we overcome the doubts, we are often successful. If we give into those voices, we will surely fail."<br />I have come to realize the importance of this sheer belief in accomplishing feats in patient safety that, in the mind of the scientific skeptic, would have been deemed impossible. <br />"Success will .... depend on efforts by clinicians who believe that they can stop harm from occurring and then act to make it happen."<br />Indeed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com