Thursday, December 06, 2012

Advancing Hernia Solutions

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Hernia surgeries are often considered to be prosaic.  At academic medical centers, for example, they are rarely discussed, compared to th...
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Wednesday, December 05, 2012

"What" before "Why"

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As the Lean Coaching Summit drew to a close, John Shook, head of the Lean Enterprise Institute, offered a summation that included the sl...
Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Double-Lean focus on coaching

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The Lean Enterprise Institute and Lean Frontiers joined together to create the Inaugural Lean Coaching Summit , a collaborative and hand...
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Billi joins MIT SDM for Lean webinar

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The MIT System Design and Management webinars are generally excellent, but I predict that one of the best of the series is about to occur...
Monday, December 03, 2012

Nomenclature inflation strikes again

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A few weeks ago , I presented an example of nomenclature inflation from the HR field, where "recruiter" had become "talent...
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Sunday, December 02, 2012

Let's go for autonomy, mastery, and purpose

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(Please read this in conjunction with the post below .) A number of regular readers were appalled the other day when I asked for comment...
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What could he do?

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I was talking recently with one of the world's experts on patient quality and safety--you would recognize his name--about another world...
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@waitingstories waits for you in Boston

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It was a treat to join director @petenicks and producer Bill Hirsch (seen here with student @AdamJJoseph) for a special discussion of The...
Saturday, December 01, 2012

Neither accountable nor caring nor organized

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Almost two years ago , I quoted Dartmouth's Elliott Fisher facetiously remarking that we could not be sure whether accountable care or...
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Friday, November 30, 2012

Dr. Fitzpatrick offers optimism for World AIDS Day

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I was very pleased to be invited to address the Board and senior managers of United Medical Center in Washington, DC, earlier this week. ...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

Heroes at MITSS

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It was an evening of unabashed hero worship on my part as I attended the annual dinner for MITSS (Medically Induced Trauma Support Servi...
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@drsusanshaw couldn't do it. Could you?

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Dr. Susan Shaw practices intensive care medicine in a hospital in Saskatoon and also chairs the province's Health Quality Council. She...
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@JustinHOPE and @mbismark show HEART

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Congratulations to Dale Ann Micalizzi and Marie Bismark on the publication of their article "The Heart of Health Care" in Pediatr...
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Scholarship funding for patient safety camps

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@dmayer33 David Mayer notes : Through the generous support of The Doctors Company Foundation and MedStar Health , we have scholarship f...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

A proposed exception to malpractice coverage

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Did you know this ? The Joint Commission Board of Commissioners originally approved the Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wr...
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Health care for Australian Aborigines

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Please check out this fascinating story by Edward Small in The Atlantic , entitled "For Australian Aborigines, the Health Problems ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Goal Play! audiobook is in the works

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I have been heartened by the response to my book Goal Play! over the last nine months, and many people have asked if and when an audiobo...

A sign of the times

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Can you guess what was deleted from the top of these three signs at the Logan Airport Hilton Hotel? It used to point to the public teleph...
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Monday, November 26, 2012

Just talk to each other!

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@Lucienengelen at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center @umcn is passionate about how to apply the tools of social media to help pat...
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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Joris explains CRM in the PICU @UMCN

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I recently cited an excellent article about the use of Crew Resource Management (CRM) in intensive care units.  Now I have had a chance ...
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