Checking In With Dr. Donald Berwick,

KHN’s Phil Galewitz talks to Donald Berwick, M.D., M.P.P., President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and clinical professor of pediatrics and health care policy at the Harvard Medical School. He says he hopes the public “gets a bit outraged and mobilized as voters ask why we pay health care systems the amount of money” we do and not have them adopt the best practices in treatment and efficiencies.

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<h1>Checking In With Dr. Donald Berwick,</h1>
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			November 12, 2009		</time>
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<p>KHN’s <strong>Phil Galewitz</strong> talks to <strong>Donald Berwick, M.D., M.P.P., </strong>President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and clinical professor of pediatrics and health care policy at the Harvard Medical School. He says he hopes the public “gets a bit outraged and mobilized as voters ask why we pay health care systems the amount of money” we do and not have them adopt the best practices in treatment and efficiencies.</p><p>Listen to <strong><a href="https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/11/110509_khn_checking_berwick.mp3">audio version</a> (.mp3</strong>) | Read <a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/legacy/306B6973-E002-4D40-A09F-28D5AC1F7CB9"><strong>Related Story</strong></a></p><ul><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/111209berwick/?share=x">				Click to share on X (Opens in new window)				X			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/111209berwick/?share=facebook">				Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)				Facebook			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/111209berwick/?share=linkedin">				Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)				LinkedIn			</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Checking%20In%20With%20Dr.%20Donald%20Berwick%2C%20&body=https%3A%2F%2Fkffhealthnews.org%2Fnews%2F111209berwick%2F&share=email">				Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)				Email			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/111209berwick/#print?share=print">				Click to print (Opens in new window)				Print			</a></li><li>				<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/111209berwick/view/republish/">					Republish This Story				</a>			</li></ul><em><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us">KFF Health News</a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href="https://www.kff.org/about-us">KFF</a>.</em><p><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-briefing/">Subscribe</a> to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing.</p><p>This <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/111209berwick/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org">KFF Health News</a> and is republished here under a <a target="_blank" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.<img src="https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/kffhealthnews-icon.png?w=150" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"><img id="republication-tracker-tool-source" src="https://kffhealthnews.org/?republication-pixel=true&post=9949&amp;ga4=G-J74WWTKFM0" style="width:1px;height:1px;"></p>

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