Apply Six Sigma, GE Corporation's quality improvement program, to health care as an answer to Clinton's call for reporting of hospital errors. The most appropriate role may be leadership in the care and treatment of environmentally induced disease. The world shrinks daily. In addition, the health consequences of earlier environmental practices are becoming evident, such as the effects on today's children of drinking water polluted generations ago. Its denizens, which range from the merely annoying to the terrifyingly deadly, are the diseases which will attract the most public and professional interest and concern.
Pharmaceutical research is the third factor in the equation.
The WHSC could be the beta site for elective clinical trials of medications under development by leading pharmaceutical houses. Momentum will publish some of those ideas during this and subsequent issues throughout the year. Send your submissions to the Editors . It Takes a Team Thank you for the very complimentary article about the renal transplant program that just ran in Momentum. While the article highlighted some of our activities, we would like to point out that Emory's transplant program is an interdisciplinary, interdepartmental effort.