Donald Berwick recognised by the Queen. I know I am usually expressing cynical sentiments about the state of modern healthcare and its practitioners; you may be pleased to know I recognize that there are exceptions. I’ve just read Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains and am tremendously inspired by Paul Farmer’s work; with his quirkiness and idiosyncracy, he’s no saint but perhaps the closest one can come in the modern world. Although I have never run across his work before, here is another Boston-area physician, Donald Berwick, who seems to be doing real good. If not sainthood, at least knighthood…
