{"id":2753,"date":"2020-03-31T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2021-06-21T11:30:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T17:30:46","slug":"the-nation-is-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/the-nation-is-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economy is Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever been sick, you know that the only thing you can do is <em>wait it out<\/em>. Here&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to have to do:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/402303496?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201cLean Six Sigma for Hospitals\u201d and the QI Macros [software].<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I know all of you have had some sort of cold or flu or been sick for a while. The day before Thanksgiving in 2014, I had this really heavy cough that came from the darkest recesses of my lungs and I said, \u201cThat&#8217;s not good.\u201d Then I felt a little worse on Thursday, and on Friday I was diagnosed as having the flu. (I forget whether was A or B flu, I don&#8217;t know what it was) But I was sick, so I got away from my wife and slept in the guest bedroom so that I wouldn&#8217;t try and infect her. I was sick, but they didn&#8217;t tell me when they checked me out that flu is only supposed to last five days.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Well, nine days later I was still sick, so I went to see my local doctor and he checked me and listened to my lungs and everything and I was fine, but a couple days later on Saturday I started having some trouble breathing. I didn&#8217;t know I was having that trouble because I&#8217;ve been sick too long. It was Monday before my wife said, \u201cI don&#8217;t like how you&#8217;re breathing. I&#8217;m taking you to the ER.\u201d I spent five days in one of the rooms because I had not just the end of the flu but also I had pneumonia. Now the doctors didn&#8217;t understand why I had a ten day thing; maybe I had a coronavirus and nobody knows, or I caught the A strain, and then B strain of the flu. Who knows? But one of the things about this was I spent five days in the hospital and then I spent like 25 days on oxygen: tethered to about a 15-foot cord and walking around the house and just trying to get well.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I think if you look at the [economy of the] nation, the nation is sick, right? And it&#8217;s not doing&#8230; it&#8217;s kind of like me: I got sick and I was okay for a while, and then I needed intensive care, and then I had to go spend time on oxygen. I think that&#8217;s going to be kind of how our economy is going to be for a while, right? We&#8217;re going to be on this kind of crazy [path] but one of the things you know about illness: if you&#8217;ve ever had a cold or anything else, you wait it out you keep taking care of yourself. You stay at home, you rest and guess what? You get better.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Now, it might have taken me months and maybe a whole year to really come back to full strength after that bout. I&#8217;d lost like 20 pounds in like ten days, so this is an ugly thing, but I think we&#8217;re going through the same thing as a nation. Now I know when it&#8217;s hard, when you&#8217;re trying to take care of a parent or a child or a spouse who&#8217;s sick, you have to wait it out whether you&#8217;re sick or not. You can&#8217;t really do a whole lot about it unless conditions and situations get worse and then you can say \u201cLet&#8217;s go find an expert; a doctor or somebody to help me with that.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So now is the time, I think, to recognize that it&#8217;s going to take a little while. These are times when you can work ON your business, not IN your business to make things better, faster, cheaper then you&#8217;ve done in the past. Now&#8217;s the time to do those projects you&#8217;ve been putting off because you\u2019ve got time to do them. All right?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m Jay Arthur. That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week. Sometimes you just have to wait it out. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&rsquo;ve ever been sick, you know that the only thing you can do is wait it out. 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