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What Can Academic Medicine Learn from Netflix?

Much has been written lauding the ability of Netflix to disrupt its industry not just once but twice. It artfully replaced the movie rental store with DVD delivery by mail, vanquishing competition like Blockbuster. It repeated the feat with impressive self-cannibalization of its first disruption through the introduction of video streaming. Today, Netflix stands tall accounting […]

Hospitals

Medical Education’s Earthquake Kit

Stakeholders in the American healthcare system are aware the trajectory of its future is unclear. The only guarantee, as evidenced by the efforts involved in the assembly of the Affordable Care Act, is change. Physicians have bore testimony. Politicians have spoken. Business and legal experts have analyzed. However, little has been heard from those whom […]