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To add to this, the oncologist who is President Elect of the American Medical Association was asked how she defined a successful health care system. She replied: "The canary in the coal mine for a health care system that either works or fails people is poor patients with cancer. A system that works properly will take poor people who have an urgent need for care, get them into a system, and get them what they need[1]"
Lambert J. Dr Barbara McAneny elected to lead American Medical Association. ASCO Connection September 2017: 34-37
Competing interests:
No competing interests
08 December 2017
S. Michael Crawford
Clinical Lead for Research
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Skipton Road, Steeton, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD20 6TD
Re: Goodhart’s law: when waiting times became a target, they stopped being a good measure
To add to this, the oncologist who is President Elect of the American Medical Association was asked how she defined a successful health care system. She replied: "The canary in the coal mine for a health care system that either works or fails people is poor patients with cancer. A system that works properly will take poor people who have an urgent need for care, get them into a system, and get them what they need[1]"
Lambert J. Dr Barbara McAneny elected to lead American Medical Association. ASCO Connection September 2017: 34-37
Competing interests: No competing interests