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This January 12, 2005 interview with Don Berwick<\/a>, at the Health Affairs<\/a> web site, underlies the importance of doing all we can to make the “voice of the patient” directly accessible-to the press, health policy planners, government officials, and medical professionals.<\/p>\n

Like many of us, Don has now concluded that positive healthcare reform will not come from within the health care system, the medical profession, or the federal government. I think that we are edging closer and closer to a crowing consensus that the only hope for successful healthcare reform lies in understanding and leveraging the e-patient revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s a deficiency of will and ambition in the major centers of power in the delivery of health care in America. We do not have a shared aim to raise the bar in performance. That’s the problem<\/p>\n

External pressure will be necessary to move the system toward meaningful change.<\/p>\n

I don’t care so much what the doctors say. I care what the patients say.<\/p>\n

The voice of the patient… the eloquence of the patient to speak up about what they need and want, is so powerful. We haven’t invited patients to speak up enough. [We need to provide] a megaphone for the patients. It’s [all about] storytelling; it’s hearing that this patient was in my hospital and this is what they went through. We need to create a space for patients to talk about things like that. Because, sooner or later, it’s going to be me or my child.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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