Time to Fail: What Healthcare Can Learn from Airplanes

By: Brian Baker

What healthcare can learn from airplanes.

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Most of us don’t think twice about getting on a commercial airline. The odds of dying on even the worst 39 airlines is 1 in 1.5 million or a .0000006% chance of death. This is more than five times better than Six Sigma quality (defect levels below 3.4 per million).