IDEA #42

To really improve, just do it

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Fortunes are spent each year on business training courses and books – but if you really want to improve, nothing beats doing something over and over again.

What you need to know

Have you ever heard a variant of the following: ‘I want to be treated at the best hospital, so I’m going to a small hospital with specialised, dedicated care’? While a quiet, local hospital that only handles a low number of patients might seem like the best place for clinical care, there is incontrovertible evidence that in medicine – as in most professions – volume is everything. In a 2008 study of treatment by physicians ...

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