I've never met Dr. Carson personally. I have worked and met with on many occasions one of his proteges, who performed the pediatric neurosurgery on my son. For the past six years, I have had the privilege to watch Hopkins up close, and personal, to see how they operate.
As someone with a graduate degree in management, I find Hopkins’ systems absolutely fascinating, as well as exemplary. The skill and coordination that went into my son's surgery was beyond my imagining. Their other systems are also impressive. They handle thousands of individuals daily, from checking folks in, to getting them tests and MRIs and things, to scheduling surgeries, making sure they happen, to getting folks needed nursing care in-patient, to making sure they have the right prescriptions, and on and on. They complete these thousands of tasks daily, all fraught with potential for mistakes and errors, efficiently and effectively, in a timely way, usually without a second glance, and often with a note of courtesy and personal kindness.
Living in that world for several decades, someone might get the idea that everyone who attempts to set up large, complex systems does as good a job as Hopkins.
As those of us who live daily in the real world, we know that the government at any level never meets such standards. In part for this reason, the government that governs best is the government that governs least.
I think that perhaps this may be part of Dr. Carson's continuing education.
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