37 min
Dr. Nate Link - Chief Medical Officer of Bellevue, and author of "The Ailing Nation: Lessons from the Bedside for America’s Leaders" Healthcare Reimagined
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For 37 years, Dr. Nate Link has worked as a doctor, and now as the Chief Medical Officer of Bellevue, the oldest (and one of the largest) hospitals in America. Bellevue can trace its roots back to 1736.
In one of my favorite episodes to date, I interviewed Dr. Link about his new book, The Ailing Nation: Lessons from the Bedside for America's Leaders, which can be found here on Amazon. Dr. Link shares personal stories, such as the tragic passing of a head nurse at Bellevue from COVID-19, which devestated the hospital's staff.
We spoke about the importance of extreme ownership in leadership, and understanding the difference between a bad actor making a mistake for preventable reasons, and a systemic error that is the fault of the system (and thus the leadership that overseas that system).
Dr. Link spoke of the importance of agreeing on a goal. Bellevue dropped its mortality rate for severe sepsis to 14%, significantly below the state average of 25%. The same gap analysis that allowed them to do that could be useful in achieving agreed upon political aims. The problem in politics, as Dr. Link and I discussed, is that we don't set common goals as a country. For instance, almost everyone agrees that Americans should have affordable healthcare -politicians just disagree on how to get there. Many Republicans believe we need to accomplish that through free enterprise while many Democrats believe in a single payer system. The key, according to Dr. Nate, is to agree on a finish line and work towards getting to the ultimate goal - in this case, affordable healthcare for all.
Dr. Nate believes that just as the healthcare industry learned from fields like aviation, politics has a lot to learn from the reforms that have improved healthcare in the past several decades. As an example, the "sterile cockpit" rule that dictates that pilot not speak during critical parts of landing and takeoff has since been applied to nurses when distributing medications, and significantly reduced errors in dispensing meds.
If you are interested in medicine, politics, or both, I would highly recommend this episode.
You can find the interview on:
Apple Podcasts (https://bit.ly/NateLink)
Spotify (https://bit.ly/DrNateLink).
Please make sure to check out Society for HealthCare Innovation - SHCI's website (http://www.SHCI.org), and our Linkedin Page (bit.ly/SHCILIP).
You can learn more about Bellevue and the NYCHHC network at www.nychealthandhospitals.org
You can find Dr. Link's book, The Ailing Nation here: https://bit.ly/TheAilingNation
For 37 years, Dr. Nate Link has worked as a doctor, and now as the Chief Medical Officer of Bellevue, the oldest (and one of the largest) hospitals in America. Bellevue can trace its roots back to 1736.
In one of my favorite episodes to date, I interviewed Dr. Link about his new book, The Ailing Nation: Lessons from the Bedside for America's Leaders, which can be found here on Amazon. Dr. Link shares personal stories, such as the tragic passing of a head nurse at Bellevue from COVID-19, which devestated the hospital's staff.
We spoke about the importance of extreme ownership in leadership, and understanding the difference between a bad actor making a mistake for preventable reasons, and a systemic error that is the fault of the system (and thus the leadership that overseas that system).
Dr. Link spoke of the importance of agreeing on a goal. Bellevue dropped its mortality rate for severe sepsis to 14%, significantly below the state average of 25%. The same gap analysis that allowed them to do that could be useful in achieving agreed upon political aims. The problem in politics, as Dr. Link and I discussed, is that we don't set common goals as a country. For instance, almost everyone agrees that Americans should have affordable healthcare -politicians just disagree on how to get there. Many Republicans believe we need to accomplish that through free enterprise while many Democrats believe in a single payer system. The key, according to Dr. Nate, is to agree on a finish line and work towards getting to the ultimate goal - in this case, affordable healthcare for all.
Dr. Nate believes that just as the healthcare industry learned from fields like aviation, politics has a lot to learn from the reforms that have improved healthcare in the past several decades. As an example, the "sterile cockpit" rule that dictates that pilot not speak during critical parts of landing and takeoff has since been applied to nurses when distributing medications, and significantly reduced errors in dispensing meds.
If you are interested in medicine, politics, or both, I would highly recommend this episode.
You can find the interview on:
Apple Podcasts (https://bit.ly/NateLink)
Spotify (https://bit.ly/DrNateLink).
Please make sure to check out Society for HealthCare Innovation - SHCI's website (http://www.SHCI.org), and our Linkedin Page (bit.ly/SHCILIP).
You can learn more about Bellevue and the NYCHHC network at www.nychealthandhospitals.org
You can find Dr. Link's book, The Ailing Nation here: https://bit.ly/TheAilingNation
37 min