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**Theme**: Better Health for a Nation or a Neighborhood **Theme Statement** (Noun-Verb-Noun): Community Reinvents Healthcare
**Title**: Managing Health Among Uncaring Subsystem
**Outline**: * Preface * The Situation in 2000 * The Grant and its Origins
**Scenes**: * Presenting at St. Joe's Board Meeting * RWJ Site Visit * Patients interviewing applicants for clinical care specialist role * Meeting Göran Henriks * Mapping Chaos talk in Jönköping * Qulturum and it effect on me * State Health IT Committee and Health Testimony * Shared Care Plan presentation to all payers * Peter Neupert and MS HealthVault Failure of Clinical Care Specialist, HealthVault, Health Record Bank program, Shared Care Plan, HiNet, CHIC, WIDS. * Consulting shifting * Ashby's Law and shift to neighborhoods for health * Healthy Washington Plan minus Requisite Variety * Smart but not yet wise * Partisan politics
**Topics**: * Local history of cooperation among doctors (vs. broad cooperation in Grand Junction, Colorado) * Patients * People * Doctors * Hospitals * Maximizing profit * Payers * Hospitals * Primary Care * Speciality Care * Clinical Care Specialists * Community Health Workers * Patient Activation and its Measure * System Dynamics Model * Decisions based solely on money and power * Technology (EMR - PHR) * Problem solving concepts, methods, and insights * Improvement vs. Transformation * Innovating with patients and technologists * Competition vs. Cooperation * Coordination vs. Cooperation * Misplaced Identification (institution vs. health) * Central role of families and neighborhoods
**Shape of Story**
**Desires**: Discover new answers to Why? Who? How? What? about the health system from direct interaction with the whole system--including patients with serious chronic diseases and their families.
**Character**: Marc Pierson
**Complication**: Government that controls the regulation, legal penalties, and financial incentives was not involved.
**Frustration**: No institution will allow any change that potentially reduces the throughput or revenue. Meaning, no money or effort will be expended to reduce illness or support patients is self care and increasing their competence.
**Action**: Find influential institutions that benefit from increased patient / person wellbeing and work with them.
**Setting**: Medford, OR
**Scene**: Conference room at university
**Consequences**: Collaborative inter-institutional process improved.
**Crisis**: Physician and hospital greed and conflict derail further large scale cooperation.
**Climax**: We move on the Spokane and five counties in NE Washington.
**Success**:
**Defeat**:
**Resolution**:
**Insight**: 1. You cannot improve your way out of a fundamentally dysfunction structure where the parts are purposefully non-interacting and antagonistic. You have to disintermediate the senile system with new structures from the bottom. 2. All institutions have goals at odds with the needs of people living in neighborhoods. If health in America is to be restored, it will be done by neighbors in neighborhoods or it will not be done. Every other part of the system profits on illness and dependence.
**Denouement**: Patients, students, workers, parents are all pretty much on their own. They must re-conceive and reimagine and remake their ways of living because almost all the present institutions are predatory--using the citizen for their cancerous growth with little regard to the wellbeing of the citizen.
Marc moved beyond the medical system and all similarly uncaring institutions with their truly intractable structural problems. He is presently exploring the latent and realized capabilities of neighbors, in the context of feasible management of social, technical, political, and ecological complexity across all scales.
There are millions of others on this same journey. I am optimistic that breakthroughs will come. Will they be in time. I don't know.
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Storytelling Wikipedia 
Narrative connecting of the dots--making sense of non-sense.
We will make up a story rather than live in confusion.
Three Parts: The setup. The confrontation. The resolution.
Stories are about choices and choosing.
Telling the story is important for the teller as well as the listener.
In the context of social organizing and action, Marshall Ganz instructs us to tell the "Story of Me" before the stories of "We" and "Now".
Insight: Invention is not innovation. Adoption may take more than a lifetime.
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