After watching his father die in misery after being misdiagnosed and treated for the wrong cancer, Peter Pronovost decided patients deserved better. Pronovost?s work changed the way intensive-care patients are treated by emphasizing goals for improvement, the role of intensive-care specialists and teamwork among the surgeon, specialist and nurses. Today Pronovost directs the Center for Innovations in Quality Patient Care at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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