by Christopher Cornue

Many of you have probably already seen "10 Steps to Better Health Care," the Op-Ed in The New York Times printed last week by Drs. Atul Gawande, Don Berwick, Elliott Fisher, and Mark McClelland. If you haven't, it deserves a read.

Whether or not you support the ongoing efforts by President Obama and Congress to create Health Care Reform, this op-ed makes a very striking point: that all healthcare/medicine is local. In reflection, I believe this is one of the fundamental differences of our healthcare system here in the United States compared to the rest of the world.

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