Miriam Mutebi, Breast Surgical Oncologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Aga Khan University Hospital, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Still on the book… Chronicle of a Death Foretold. I find it so powerful because of its structure.
Márquez (the author) tells the story out of sequence because causality isn’t linear. The ending is shaped by many small moments: missed chances, softened warnings and tolerated delays.
Cancer systems work the same way. Outcomes are rarely caused by one failure. They are the sum of what we’ve learned to live with or tolerate.
The lesson this book left me with is simple: inevitability is usually engineered. If we can predict harm, we can intervene earlier. Leadership is therefore not the heroism at the end of the story, but the courage to interrupt the middle.
Here’s to changing narratives for our systems.”
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