Terry Platchek

Hospitalist. Pediatrician. Healthcare improvement practitioner. Advocate for better health, less spending. Star Trek fan. My tweets don’t represent my employer.

[Terry Platchek @TerryPlatchek]

So excited that the 10th Lean Healthcare Academic Conference has begun! #leanhealthcare #LHAC25

[Terry Platchek @TerryPlatchek]

@captretiredfd @allenanalysis The 5th amendment, and again in the 14th amendment. The text is clear and unequivocal. Due process has also recently been reaffirmed unanimously by the Supreme Court. Due process is a fundamental right for all persons in the US, a place many like to call the land of the free.

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I’m so excited to learn more about the 70 incredible posters at the Lean Healthcare Academic Conference at Stanford describing improvement work across three continents. We have made so much progress in the last 20 years. 📸 credit Karri Benjamin #LeanHealthcare @LeanAcademic

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Thanks so much Dr. Patel for starting off the 9th Lean Healthcare Academic Conference at Stanford on such an engaging note! It was thought provoking to consider so many diverse views on what the next generation of improvement in healthcare has in store for us? #LeanHealthcare

[Yoni Michanie @YoniMichanie]

Pay close attention. This is a high school in San Francisco.

Imagine being a Jewish child in this school.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

Elsevier is losing editors

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Cigna uses an automated system that allows “medical directors” (doctors employed by @Cigna) to deny a claim in 1.2 seconds without opening the patient’s file.

Please read this, share it, and help us (metaphorically) burn these companies to the ground.

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Thank you John for this incredible tribute to Ed, who taught me and many others so very much. In Honor of Dr. Edgar Schein: A Tribute to a Giant in Organizational Theory https://t.co/MDcHf5bzN8

[Jason Yarn @kalyarn]

KOSHERSOUL by Michael W Twitty @KosherSoul is awarded Jewish Book of the Year by the Jewish Book Council @JewishBook !!!

[Jason Yarn @kalyarn]

At NYCC in October I said on a panel that artists were getting more and more nervous about AI art. It’s only been two months and it feels like we’ve see insane/scary advancements in the tech. This “comic” doesn’t survive closer inspection, but what about in a year?

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@DrJessieAllan @DeannaMarie208 @yoncabulutmd @SapnaKmd @ChrisCarrollMD @DrPhilipVerhoef @mommimaya @JennaMillerKC @STangGirdwood @TchouMd Initiating on the floor is coming to a hospital near you Dr. Allan.

[Terry Platchek @TerryPlatchek]

Dr. Lauren Destino facilitating a star studded session on integrating the social and technical aspects of improvement. Thanks John Shook, Skip Stewart, Edgar Schein and Peter Schein. #LeanHealth

[Christopher A. Longhurst, MD @CALonghurst]

Thank you Leilani Schweitzer (Patient Liaison @StanfordMed) for opening the #LeanHealth conference with your inspirational and moving keynote

[Terry Platchek @TerryPlatchek]

@janee3545 telling us we need to talk about the cost of healthcare at the @Stanford Lean Academic Healthcare Conference (https://t.co/oc99LjBKDF)

[Terry Platchek @TerryPlatchek]

Seán Paul Teeling from University College Dublin showing that we can improve together for all using patient and #FamilyCenteredCare at the Stanford Lean Healthcare Academic Conference (https://t.co/oc99LjjBpx)

[Christopher A. Longhurst, MD @CALonghurst]

Delighted to be back at Stanford for the Lean Healthcare Academic Conference, and excited to learn from 200+ colleagues across 5 countries with my @UCSDHealth colleagues! https://t.co/CBOVVMBwoE

[Terry Platchek @TerryPlatchek]

A great start to the #Lean Healthcare Academic Conference at Stanford with multiple presentations on #HealthcareQuality and #HealthEquity

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A platoon’s worth of police were paralyzed with fear for an hour because of one gun wielder while he used the gun to slaughter school children. They stood there with ballistic shields - listening to it happen! How is such a terrifying gun legal for civilian use? 3/3

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I forced myself to watch the police who could have interrupted the massacre of 19 young children and two teachers so I could see what a squad of heavily armed and well outfitted “good guys with guns” looks like - in reality. 1/3 https://t.co/6nbtu4B9ar

[Terry Platchek @TerryPlatchek]

If there is a weapon so dangerous that a group of police officers, whose responsibility is saving children from being murdered, are too afraid to go up against a single person wielding it, that weapon should not be legal.

[Terry Platchek @TerryPlatchek]

After watching, how can anyone think there is any hope of improving our uniquely American problem - the use of weapons of war to regularly and repeatedly massacre children and others - without limiting access to weapons that can kill so many people so incredibly quickly? 2/3