Outsourcing

I liked Frank's idea of posting videos to this. So hopefully it works because I am just under the retarded level when it comes to computers...



Report: Many U.S. Parents Outsourcing Child Care Overseas


...I am enjoying the book so far, though I'm only about 40 pages into it. It's interesting that Friedman uses the example of the radiologists outsourcing CAT scans. I believe that example was used in the first edition (I'm reading the 3rd) which was published in 2005. Radiology outsourcing is much more prevalent now, as is outsourcing in other areas of healthcare. There have been some radiologists that have been forced to change positions or get better, but the overall effect has been that echoed by Friedman--the radiologists have more time to focus their energies on more important aspects of their field. This has created a HUGE expansion in the specialties and sub-specialties of radiology. New advances include one particular field, interventional radiology, which is allowing radiologists to perform image-guided vascular and neurosurgery. This has been an incredible help in fighting certain kinds of disease, most notably stroke and cancer.

So, it's a good pick so far. This guy is an absolute genius. I think just about all of my business professors at the University of Utah worshipped him. Hopefully the video works, and if it doesn't, go check out The Onion and search "outsourcing".