To the Editor: As one who works in paediatrics and sees parents bringing their children to hospital for day surgery, and then taking them home again a few hours later, I concur with Winch and Henderson in their critique of “lean thinking” ways of delivering health care.1
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- Curtin University and Child and Adolescent Health Service, Perth, WA.
Correspondence: l.shields@curtin.edu.au
- 1. Winch S, Henderson AJ. Making cars and making health care: a critical review. Med J Aust 2009; 191: 28-29. <MJA full text>
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