Minnesota Public Radio reporter Lorna Benson recently spent a day at Mayo Clinic to learn why President Obama touts Mayo Clinic as a model for high quality, efficent health care. Benson got examples of both low tech and high tech methods Mayo uses to improve quality and efficiency, as well as a chance to talk values and principles with a Mayo Clinic physician. Read the Web version of the story; an audio link should become available shortly.
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