Now in its fourth year, Future Makers is sponsored by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center. A cardiologist and physiologist, Shine is a clinical professor of medicine at the Georgetown medical school and former dean and provost for medical sciences at the UCLA School of Medicine. He was elected IOM president in 1988.
Physicians tend to equate quality with the training and knowledge of other physicians.
Actually, the 'quality' of care is that given to patients. It is not necessarily dependent on the skill of physicians. He told the story of one hospital that was experiencing a high mortality rate of emergency room patients who needed surgery. Shine characterized this as a systemic problem. It's a big challenge, but I think we can do it.