Sunday, November 28, 2010

Behind the scenes

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Recent international negotiations have reached a very high level. We were able to get security clearance and obtain this picture from behin...
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Friday, November 26, 2010

Painfully slow

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You can already imagine the responses. "That's just in North Carolina." "Our patients are sicker." "There ar...
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Things we are grateful for this year

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For three years running now, many of us bloggers have participated in what we’ve called a “ blog rally ” to promote Engage With Grace – a m...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

Checklists ain't all

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I am often approached by people who have read Atul Gawande's excellent work and who ask me if we use checklists to improve the quality o...
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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Transparency and "dial tone" to fight market power

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Back in August, I raised the question of whether the move to Accountable Care Organizations and capitated payments would lead to market do...
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Saturday, November 20, 2010

A defining moment at Risky Business

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Lord Ian Blair led London's Metropolitan Police through the investigations of the multiple bombings of July 7, 2005 and all that follow...

BP Oil Spill at Risky Business

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Here is a very good perspective on what went wrong to cause the explosion on the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and the resultant oil spi...

Everest disaster at Risky Business

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Dr. Ken Kamler is a surgeon who also has served as doctor on some of the world's most daring expeditions, including the ill-fated climb ...

Reconciliation at Risky Business

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Jo Berry is founder of a charity called Building Bridges for Peace. Patrick Magee, PhD, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the Brighton...
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Friday, November 19, 2010

Sekou at Risky Business

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You last met Sekou Andrews on this blog after his performance at last year's IHI Annual Forum. He was back in good form today at the R...
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Pedro Algorta at Risky Business

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The Risky Business conference in London just ended. Here's a video of one of the most moving talks of the two-day session. Pedro Algo...
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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Risky decision-making

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I am back in London for a short stay to attend a conference entitled Risky Business , organized by Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children...
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MLB praises Red Sox Scholars program

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Here's some very nice recognition by Major League Baseball for the Red Sox Scholars program, for which BIDMC is the Presenting Sponsor...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

ED report card

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An emergency department in an academic medical center has an important educational role in training the next generation of emergency medicin...
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

The US dialysis program -- How good and how bad?

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A recent article in ProPublica by Robin Fields contains a number of strong criticisms of the US dialysis program for people with kidney di...
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Monday, November 15, 2010

Middle school explorers in BIDMC Labs

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Harvard Medical School's Office for Diversity and Community Partnership created the Explorations program to enhance science and math cu...
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Some grades are in

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In a comment below , Jim Conway offers some data from the Commonwealth Fund that sheds light on the question posed. I have copied the summ...
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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Prove it!

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A well regarded local hospital administrator last week said, "There is lots of evidence that Massachusetts health care is the best in t...
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A mission to a tiny country

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This week, doctors from the BIDMC Division of Urology are heading off to the Cape Verde Islands to provide a much needed service and to te...
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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Rolling Thunder

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Newton Girls Soccer team Thunder ended the fall season with a triumphant 7-1-2 record, clinching the championship of their section of under...