What Is an “Upstreamist” in Health Care?
“There are three friends who come to a river …”
So begins a parable from Rishi Manchanda, MD, MPH, who has a different view of our health care system. Health care, Manchanda says, has rescuers and raft builders to save people from drowning, but it doesn’t have nearly enough people looking for the root causes to the problems that plague patients every day.
In this IHI Open School short, Manchanda creatively explains why he’s an “upstreamist” — and why the health care workforce is still swimming against the current.
