Hamster health care: time to stop running faster and redesign health care

British Medical Journal, Dec 23, 2000 by Richard Savage

Ian Morrison president emeritus

Institute of the Future, 2744 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA

Richard Smith editor, BMJ

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