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A Different Way to Measure Success in Health Care | Andrew Bastawrous | TED

After building a smartphone app to bring eye care to millions of people in remote areas, eye surgeon and TED Fellow Andrew Bastawrous confronted a new question: What do we lose when health care chases speed and efficiency? He offers a quiet provocation for how to get better outcomes for patients and health care workers…

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After building a smartphone app to bring eye care to millions of people in remote areas, eye surgeon and TED Fellow Andrew Bastawrous confronted a new question: What do we lose when health care chases speed and efficiency? He offers a quiet provocation for how to get better outcomes for patients and health care workers alike. (Recorded at TED Fellows on April 8, 2025)

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  1. @ExistentialWolf

    March 20, 2026 at 11:25 am

    I know how much one learns in studies, versus how much one uses that criteria at work, or more so how much they learn from their job itself. This is one of the major hurdles in any profession. The talent comes with experience, but the threshold to that path is often confusing with different approaches to building that knowledge to start. There has to be a more useful way than to rely on _a little house on the prairie._

  2. @SilverUnicorn-333

    March 20, 2026 at 11:36 am

    I have had a terrible time getting proper health care because I was homeless and got labeled as case management. I have been housed for 3 years now, and still cannot seem to get anyone to take me seriously. It hurts and makes you not trust the health care system.

    • @MeeksMills

      March 20, 2026 at 8:25 pm

      Sorry to hear that

    • @SilverUnicorn-333

      March 20, 2026 at 8:56 pm

      ​@MeeksMillsThank you. You would think that people would want to help you get better, but they don’t. I want to have faith in the Human race, but at this point I have more faith in my animals. 😢

  3. @Christine-e7b

    March 20, 2026 at 11:48 pm

    Emotional IQ ❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you !

  4. @lifelovesme

    March 21, 2026 at 3:21 am

    This doesn’t happen in the healthcare system, unfortunately. It’s the ideal.

  5. @sumaiyauf

    March 22, 2026 at 4:21 am

    People like you are the ones who restore my faith in not just healthcare but also humanity.

  6. @jarrettbobbett5230

    March 22, 2026 at 4:03 pm

    Plz no more clicking sound.

  7. @cindyclayArt

    March 22, 2026 at 7:40 pm

    Thank you for caring! I thought I would go into “healthcare”. In the US it is such a failed system, one of thee worst, because of money, not health.

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