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Mapping Healthcare is a radio show and podcast where a medic with a map explores ways in which people around the globe improve the world of healthcare and what we can learn from them. The host is a physician, medical educator, and researcher who leads programs that help health systems deliver high-quality healthcare. About your host: Dr. Ulfat Shaikh is a pediatrician and professor at the University of California Davis. She is the Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Council on Quality Improvement and Patient Safety and is on the board of directors of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare. Dr. Shaikh has been a practicing pediatrician for over 25 years and has a Doctor of Medicine, master’s in public health, master’s in clinical research, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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A mother dies from preventable causes related to pregnancy or childbirth every two minutes. We have the medical knowledge about what works to prevent these avoidable deaths. So why do they still occur? Explore the global
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In rural counties most pharmacies are independently owned. When these rural pharmacies close, they don’t just leave a gap in healthcare, they affect a region's economy. Because who wants to move to a town where you can’t
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In healthcare, we’re trained to move fast, to diagnose, treat, and fix. But what happens when we slow down just enough to ask a different question: What matters to you? In this episode, we reflect on how one simple quest
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Today we’re in a place where everybody knows your name, but also where the nearest specialist may be a three hour drive away. In a city, your physician is someone you may see a couple of times a year. In a rural area you
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Healthcare faces urgent challenges. Rising complexity, widening inequities, burned-out clinical teams, and health systems stretched to their limits. But what if the biggest risk is playing it safe? Behind every breakthro
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About 40% of nurses say they plan to leave nursing in the next five years because of unmanageable stress, workload, and understaffing. There are scales to measure the health of a workplace that look at staffing, leadersh
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Transitions of care from hospital to home are some of the riskiest moments in a person’s healthcare journey. Medication lists change, high‑risk medications require careful monitoring, and patients often deal with overwhe
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Ever wish you could skip noisy hospitals and heal in your own bed? We explore Hospital at Home, a game-changing model that brings acute care—from IV meds to 24/7 monitoring—directly to your living room. We trace how this
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You're in a hospital. There’s a whirlwind of people in scrubs and white coats. It can be confusing trying to figure out who's who. Is that person a nurse, a respiratory therapist, a resident physician, a senior doctor? W
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How much of our inner world is shaped by the world around us? And does depression in Oslo feel the same as depression in Oklahoma City? The language we use to talk about our pain and even the pain itself can be deeply cu
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Antibiotic resistance is when bacteria evolve to withstand the medicines designed to kill them. About half the time that we use an antibiotic, it might not be needed or it's the wrong one for the job. That misuse is what
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Behind so many children with complex medical needs there is an often invisible support system. The people we're talking about are family members of children with medical complexity. Pediatric neurodisability specialist H
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When we think of healthcare professionals we usually picture them treating illnesses. But the reality is that major health gaps aren't usually caused by clinical failures – they are the result of social, political, econo
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Human factors as a field emerged during World War II because of the need to improve the design of aircrafts and other military equipment, while paying attention to human fatigue, perception, thinking, understanding, and
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We’re dealing with another delivery dilemma, the rising global rates of medically unnecessary Cesarean sections. Latin America has some of the highest C-section rates in the world and Pedro Delgado tells us about the com
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Too little, too late. And too much, too soon. This and the next episode are about the c-section paradox: the rising rates of medically unnecessary C-sections globally and the underuse of c-sections when they are really n
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In today’s episode the tables are turned and I am a guest on the The Walk and Talk Improvement Podcast in Ireland. This is a special episode to mark the 2025 World Patient Safety Day. This year’s theme is “Safe care for
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When most people hear about lean they think of assembly lines and car factories. Hear how this management philosophy streamlines healthcare, increases value for patients, cuts out waste, and involves healthcare teams in
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Preventable blindness affects millions of people. That's the dark reality for far too many, even when treatments are actually readily available. While medical advancements have lowered the rate of blindness per age group
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Healthcare faces rising costs, quality problems, and workforce shortages, and the ability to rally people around a shared, meaningful purpose is more critical than ever. So, how do healthcare leaders begin to inspire thi
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