Dr. Fred Southwick, Teaching Quality, Patient Safety & Lean

Lean Blog Interviews: Real-World Lean Leadership Conversations in Healthcare and Beyond · Nov 18, 2019 · 55m

http://www.leanblog.org/352

Joining me for Episode #352 of the podcast is Frederick Southwick, M.D. He is a Professor of Medicine and is also Director of Patient Care Quality and Safety in the Division of Hospitalist Medicine at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Fred is the author of many books including Critically Ill: A 5-Point Plan to Cure Healthcare Delivery. In the podcast, Fred will talk about why he shifted from infectious diseases to focusing on hospital medicine and healthcare improvement. This was driven partially by two very personal episodes with problems in the healthcare…