This was really, really great.  Very interesting too.  Inspired me to do some further reading.  Obviously I started with the basics :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System

That was perhaps one of the best descriptions regarding HOW Lean processes (a la Toyota) can be instituted into a medical facility.  My impression is that the change in perspective and the dedication to continual improvement is much more important than the individual steps which are taken.  Obviously, each institution will implement streamlined systems in a different way.  Thanks.

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Hanging in the garage of Fire Station #6 in Livermore, California, there’s a small, pear-shaped light bulb. It is glowing right now.
This lightbulb has been glowing, with just a couple of momentary interruptions, for 113 years. You can see it glow in real time.
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99% Invisible-144- There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

In 1998 Dr. Gary Kaplan, the CEO of Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle received some bad news about his hospital. It was losing money. So Dr. Kaplan started studying how other hospitals were being run to see if there was a better way to manage his hospital. He scoured the country, looking for a hospital with a management system worth adopting, but he never found one. Instead he ended up in Japan. At a Toyota factory. 
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On an all-NEW Snap..."Spooked VII: Pitch Black." There is the dark of night...and then there is darkness so deep you can barely hear yourself scream. The hair-raising finale of Snap's terrifying "Spooked Week" of haunting, true-life stories. Be afraid . . .

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While shooting the cultish webserie “New York Minute”, Samuel Hirsch recorded some urban sounds and voices for this short Afro-American ballad.  
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NY state of mind

Learan is a widower who lost his wife to breast cancer a year ago. Now he is a single parent to two boys. This is part of a larger group of audio portraits called Squirrels Stories of people talking about living with cancer. You can hear more stories at www.SquirrelsStories.com. 

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A tiny radio show about design, architecture &amp; the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world.

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On the radio on 91.7 KALW in San Francisco. Fridays at 7:35am and 4:30pm, Saturdays at 8:35am.  And public radio stations across the country.

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