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The Rise and Fall of Quality Improvement in America

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The Rise and Fall of Quality Improvement in America
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Steven Kritz
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The past four years of the COVID response, by any metric, has been a total disaster, but it fits in with what I believe is the end game of the people who perpetrated this atrocity. My goal is to go from the process utilized to release the COVID mRNA vaccine; to the legal and governmental details surrounding that release, and efforts to normalize these tactics; to the overriding historical context within which all of this occurred, of which the COVID response was a key component; to the academic and philosophical milieu that has brought us to the current state of affairs; leading, finally, to my take on the ultimate end game. I will approach this from a quality improvement (QI) perspective.

Steven Kritz
Steven Kritz
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Steven Kritz, M.D., is a retired physician, who has been in the healthcare field for 50 years. He graduated from SUNY Downstate Medical School and completed IM Residency at Kings County Hospital. This was followed by almost 40 years of healthcare experience, including 19 years of direct patient care in a rural setting as a Board Certified Internist; 17 years of clinical research at a private-not-for-profit healthcare agency; and over 35 years of involvement in public health, and health systems infrastructure and administration activities. He retired 5 years ago, and became a member of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the agency where he had done clinical research, where he has been IRB Chair for the past 3 years.
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