Speaking of Lean, I remember my mother telling me about their hospital adopting lean and that meant they could keep only so many supplies on hand in the lab. I

Speaking of Lean, I remember my mother telling me about their hospital adopting lean and that meant they could keep only so many supplies on hand in the lab. I remember thinking at the time "wow, isn't it a bad idea to try to limit the amount of supplies on hand at a hospital" I guess we'll have to see if we ever have a major health care crises. Wait... And we wonder why the hospitals didn't have enough PPE on hand. Did the MBA virus spread to hospitals and did they misapply methodologies like Lean where it had no place, except as short sighted cost cutting? One of the major problems in industry I've seen again and again is management, etc pretending they know more about the job and it's requirements than the people doing it. As Lean originated in manufacturing with the WORKERS making the improvements and the WORKERS being empowered (anyone could stop the line if there was a problem) it's bit ironic that a corrupted version was used later to beat workers into submission and achieve petty cost cutting versus process improvement as in the health care anecdote above.