Why not the best?
by Jimmy Carter · first published 1975
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…accident in Canada. He considered his time as a nuclear submarine officer so formative that a question to him from the Admiral in charge of Naval Reactors, Hyman Rickover, formed the title of his book "Why Not the Best?" [1] President Carter was well-aware that the submarine was named after him and why, and stated himself how proud he was to have a submarine named after him. [2] Not just a submarine either; the Seawolf…
on “NSA's Warrantless Wiretaps (2012)” ↗…replied: "No, sir, I didn’t always do my best." And Rickover asked "why not?" This significantly impacted Jimmy Carter and eventually became the title of a book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/645520.Why_Not_the_Best_ I think GP is probably pattern matching a bit too much. It's plausibly connected, but I doubt it.
on “Rickover's Lessons” ↗…about where to go. And lastly, you can look up the statistics about how good hospitals are at treating different things in general. For example, according to the Commonwealth Fund report from last year ("Why Not The Best?"), hospitals have gotten much better at treating heart attacks in the last five years. Granted, you'd still need to go to the ER if you were having a heart attack anyway, but at least you know now that…
on “How to stop hospitals from killing us” ↗