# S4 Ep20: What the Mayo Clinic Gets Right featuring Drs. Kalah Blackstock and Dr. John Hwang

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Podcast: [Qualitycast North](https://stenobird.com/podcast/qualitycast-north-4458625)
Published: 2025-10-24T18:44:17+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8795692
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Duration seconds: 1639

## Resource

From a healthcare quality perspective, you can’t get much better than the Mayo Clinic. Its global reputation for high quality patient care is unsurpassed. But what exactly makes the Mayo Clinic so good and what can other institutions learn from how the Mayo Clinic does business? To find out, the Doctors of BC recently arranged for a group of British Columbian physicians to visit the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, to hear, see and experience how they deliver care. To talk about their learnings and key takeaways from that trip are today’s guests, Dr. Kalah Blackstock a family physician in Smithers and Physician Co-chair and Advisor to Northern Health’s Physician Quality Improvement program, and Dr. John Hwang, a general surgeon at the Royal Columbian Hospital in Vancouver and the current Board Chair of The Doctors of BC. In our wide-ranging discussion, we talk about the importance of organizational vision, physician leadership, data and above all culture. Listen in and discover the Mayo’s special sauce.

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