This is the kind of craziness that will never help. If you just look at things from the point of view of saving water and forgetting about other aspects of life then you come out with this kind of crazy thinking.
To save water we need to look at the world at a deeper level and not just from a consumption point of view.
“Japanese companies reinvented the process of making cars. That's what we're doing in health care,” Dr. Shetty says. “What health care needs is process innovation, not product innovation.”
At his flagship, 1,000-bed Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospital, surgeons operate at a capacity virtually unheard of in the U.S., where the average hospital has 160 beds, according to the American Hospital Association.
Narayana's 42 cardiac surgeons performed 3,174 cardiac bypass surgeries in 2008, more than double the 1,367 the Cleveland Clinic, a U.S. leader, did in the same year. His surgeons operated on 2,777 pediatric patients, more than double the 1,026 surgeries performed at Children's Hospital Boston.
Next door to Narayana, Dr. Shetty built a 1,400-bed cancer hospital and a 300-bed eye hospital, which share the same laboratories and blood bank as the heart institute. His family-owned business group, Narayana Hrudayalaya Private Ltd., reports a 7.7% profit after taxes, or slightly above the 6.9% average for a U.S. hospital, according to American Hospital Association data.
