WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: December 7, 2017 Featuring:  ​​Victor Montori, MD, Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Maggie Breslin, MDes, Director, The Patient Revolution Kerri Sparling, Diabetes Advocate; Creator and Author, Six Until Me When Dr. Victor Montori first started talking about Minimally Disruptive Medicine ​more than a decade ago, he shook the establishment. Dr. Montori, who works with patients with diabetes, had come to believe that shared decision making – an effort to help patients make informed decisions about managing their health problems – wasn't proving all that effective. Dr. Montori felt doctors and nurses weren't factoring in the burden of being a patient with a chronic condition, and the real life challenges – social, economic, or personal – of following prescribed treatment plans. It was time, he argued, for providers to look up from strict protocols and guidelines long enough to get curious about their patients' lives in order to minimize barriers to better health, not add to them.    Fast forward