Wednesday, June 30, 2010

An astronaut speaks

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Kathryn Schulz, author of Being Wrong, Adventures in the Margin of Error , sent along this link to a recent Slate interview with James Bag...
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Good motives and unintended consequences

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Facts matter. Here is an example. Based on comments by some , you would have thought that individual and small business insurance rates ha...
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Is this the classified ad section?

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I received this email on Sunday night. Perhaps it is just me, but it feels weird to get a solicitation like this, as though this were just ...
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Social media gaggle

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Johnson and Johnson's Marc Monseau convened a group of health care social media addicts last night for a pleasant evening of dinner and ...
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Monday, June 28, 2010

In memoriam: Polly Arango

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Polly Arango, a nationally known advocate for children, died on Saturday, June 26. In total, I only spent a few minutes with Polly at last ...
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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Contradictions in Massachusetts

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I have written before about the strange things going on in the Massachusetts health care insurance market. For those from out of state, he...
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Tour de Shuls

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I just finished riding in the Tour de Shuls, a cleverly named bike ride that benefits a special program to meet the social and religious ne...
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Saturday, June 26, 2010

Vuvuzelas app

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After writing the post below , I learned about the free vuvezela app for your IPhone or IPad when a friend demonstrated it. Imagine, you ca...
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Friday, June 25, 2010

About vuvuzelas, and balls that work strangely

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The Washington Post recently published this article by Anne Applebaum about vuvuzelas, the loud horns that you hear in the World Cup match...
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Thursday, June 24, 2010

The primary care experience in MA

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Massachusetts Health Quality Partners presents a recent survey of patient experiences with primary care. There are both positive and negat...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Pride and Ownership

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Seen above are members of our environmental service (EVS) group. Left to right are Jean Simeon, Operating Room Lead Housekeeper (22 years a...
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Pretty data. Useful?

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This is an interesting portrayal, provided by GE, of hospital quality metrics. It compiles data from the Joint Commission's 2009 Annua...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Why I love BIDMC

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This is why I love my hospital. Everyone feels the right to complain and to suggest. And generally, the complaints and suggestions are rec...
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It is not just teenagers

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In a post below , I relate Dr. Amy Ship's recommendation to her patients and to her colleagues that they focus seriously on the dangers ...
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Monday, June 21, 2010

Schwartz Center Rounds work

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One of the great legacies in recent medical history was provided by Kenneth Schwartz, a relatively young man who died of cancer, whose story...
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Sunday, June 20, 2010

Trek Across Maine 2010

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I'm just back from riding in this year's Trek Across Maine, where I joined about 2500 other people in biking over three days from Be...
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Friday, June 18, 2010

Mike's versus Modern

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This is a very serious clinical trial and one worth repeating by anybody who happens to be in Boston's North End. IRB approval is not ...
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A pipeline that leads upstream

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What do the following names have in common? Beauvais, Brandao, Chanlatte, Gaines, Gebregziabher, Moorman, Ramos, Vicent, Viller, Weller. Ce...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Who's playing whom when in the World Cup?

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An innovative and great World Cup calendar, here .

Moving lots of babies

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An important aspect of hospital operations is to prepare for the unexpected, a catastrophe that can cause a major disruption to patient care...
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