Treat You Better - a parody of the 2016 Shawn Mendes song "Treat You Better" - Many pay-for performance initiatives in health care have some major limitations - most importantly P4P initiatives typically forget that individual patients should be involved in heath care decision-making activities.
LYRICS AND VIDEO PRODUCTION
James McCormack
GREAT VOCALS
Shae Scotten
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BACKING TRACK
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AMAZING IMAGES
The images are from the great medical artist, illustrator and designer
Malcolm Willett. While most pictures are worth a thousand words - when it comes to healthcare, Malcolm's are each worth in the millions.
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Thanks as always to Alan Cassels and Pete McCormack for their invaluable suggestions
LYRICS
"Treat You Better"
I won't lie to you
I know these metrics may not be right for you
Most are arbitrary cutoffs
And not evidence-based
Pay for performance is not what you want
We’d be spending all our time
And a ton of aggravation
You would probably want it all to stop
I know I can treat you better than they can
We’ll make a shared-decision game plan
It’s kind of a new paradigm
So much more gratifying
Values and preferences instead
I know I can treat you better
Better than they can
I’ll be honest with you
Most targets were not designed for you
Performance measures are not the care that you're missing
Maybe, the best thing I could do
would be to ignore these pressures and really just listen
and figure out what’s best for you
'Cause I know I can treat you better than they can
We’ll make a shared-decision game plan
It’s kind of a new paradigm
So much more gratifying
Values and preferences instead
I know I can treat you better
Better than they can
Minimally disruptive medicine
No more guidelines
I’m pretty sure, you’ll be fine
Don’t have a nervous breakdown
It is quite well known
There’s a wide healthy zone
It’s not just about getting your numbers down
Copyright Issues
1. The original song is Treat You Better by a great young Canadian artist Shawn Mendes
2. In Canada we have a law that states the use of copyrighted material as part of "Fair dealing for the purpose of research, private study, education, parody or satire does not infringe copyright"
3. The use is solely for non-commercial purposes
4. The use is solely for the purposes of education - promoting the concepts of evidence-based medicine, shared decision making and common sense to health care providers and patients
5. It is parody as it equates the original context of the song - treating a person better - to the concept of health care providers taking better care of patients by not being stymied by pay for performance measures with the wrong targets
6. Written permission from the Karaoke (the background music) people to use their content was obtained [ Ссылка ]
7. Substantive transformative changes have been made - new lyrics and vocals
8. I have permission from Malcolm Willettt to use his brilliant images
