Don Berwick's Speech 'Many Is Not A Number'

A powerful speech given by Don Berwick on December 2004 explains ways in which healthcare industries needs to implement in order to save lives and to reduce the mortality death rates that occur in the healthcare (i.e. no needless death). In his speech entitled “Some Is Not A Number…. Soon Is Not A Time” invites all healthcare care organization U.S. and the world to come together to save 100,000 lives by June 14th 2006 at 9am exactly 18 months from the day of the speech. In order to achieve this goal Dr. Berwick suggests there should be a high standards protocol that will help improve care and reduce patients harm.
Dr. Berwick opens his speech by giving a history about the red sox coming together as a team and having the potential to end their

losing streak of not winning a world series by implementing new methodology that will help to win the world series. After 86 years of not winning World Series, the red sox finally won a world series in 2004. Dr. Berwick suggests that if the Red sox has finally won a world series and our healthcare is still leading the wrong way and there needs to be steps that will help to improve our healthcare after a long time of patient being treated poorly. To achieve this goal, Dr. Berwick suggests that health organizations need to have the same intense idea that led the red sox to win world series after a long losing streak (i.e. applying a simple methodology within health organizations at work that can lead to a better care and relief patients from their suffering).
With health system set to heal patients from their sickness, it has actually does the opposite of healing leading to unintended harm and unnecessary deaths at alarming rate.

Building on the successful work of health care providers will help with the campaign of saving 100,000 lives. Through his speech, Dr. Berwick introduce six changes that every hospital needs to implement in order to save lives that will bring family together. The six changes Dr. Berwick wish every health care organization needs work on that will help save these lives are to deploy rapid response team, deliver reliable care for acute myocardial infarctions, prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia bundles, prevention of central venous line bundles, prevention of surgical site infection prophylaxis medication and prevention of adverse drug events with reconciliation. Even though the lives save may not know who they are, it will bring community and family together. According to Dr. Berwick “The names of the patients whose lives we save can never be known. Our contribution will be what did not happen to them. And, though they are unknown, we will know that mothers and fathers are at graduations and weddings they would have missed, and that grandchildren will know grandparents they might never have known, and holidays will be taken, and work completed, and books read, and symphonies heard, and gardens tended that, without our work, would never have

been.”
Each six changes were explain that will help in the campaign of saving 100,000 live that is, the rapid response team will be the first team to arrive at the first sign at patients’ decline.