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Advocate System Versus System That Does Not Need Advocates (Blog)

Friday, July 08, 2016

"...When Peter and I discussed the fact that some medical patient and family caregivers councils have set as a goal having a patient advocate for each patient, he said, in effect: “No, you want the system to be so good that nobody needs an advocate.”  His point was that if you give everyone an advocate you take away the incentive to improve the system.  You just fix each problem as it occurs..."

 

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