Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Pause to remember

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As we celebrate Veteran's Day in the US and Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth nations, I recall being in Toronto on this date a few...

Fantastic Voyage is showing in New South Wales

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Dr. John McGhee is a researcher and senior lecturer based at UNSW Art & Design . Here you see him taking a virtual voyage through a...
Sunday, November 09, 2014

Making time for griefwork

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All kinds of cross-connections become evident as you work with people to try to improve the quality and safety of patient care, as we see...
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Time to pass the baton

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As this excellent summary by Robert Weisman and Scott Allen in the Boston Globe reveals, the basis for and the content of the proposed de...

It's a stupid rule. Well, no.

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I serve as a mentor to our league's youth referees and get to watch a lot of little kids' games.  At one of yesterday's 3rd gra...
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Kwan's messages from Liberia

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Ebola is already off the front pages in American newspapers, consistent with the media's fifteen-minutes-of-coverage pattern, but the...
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Saturday, November 08, 2014

End of season rituals

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I've come to hate this point in the soccer season, when we take a break after playing and working hard together with the 12-year-olds...

Words from the Southern Hemisphere

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As a result of some recent presentations I made in Johannesburg, I was invited to submit a commentary piece to the widely read Mail and G...
Friday, November 07, 2014

In memoriam: John Winthrop Sears

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John Sears died this week, appropriately, on Election Day.  Appropriately, because he was a great public servant who held elective offic...
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Wednesday, November 05, 2014

EHRs and safety on WIHI

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Madge Kaplan writes: The next WIHI broadcast —  Optimizing Safety with the Electronic Health Record: The Latest on Glitches and Fixes f...

On election day, a unamimous vote

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It didn't make the national news, but the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted unanimously to request the school's administr...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Physics lesson

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We all learned of Galileo's experiment from the Leaning Tower of Pisa in which he dropped two balls of different masses to test his hyp...

Normal? Mindfulness without action is stasis.

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My friend and colleague Norman Faull, the brains and spirit behind the Lean Institute Africa, asks whether we act (or should act) when w...
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Monday, November 03, 2014

The UK says: Scare 'em and they'll change their lives

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What's the best way to persuade middle-aged people to adopt a better lifestyle, to reduce drinking and smoking and increase exercise?...
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Sunday, November 02, 2014

What's going on at Harvard?

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What happens when the WGU ("World's Greatest University," as Harvard is affectionately known around Boston), decides to redes...
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Friday, October 31, 2014

On That Day I Left My Boyhood Behind

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Susan Burnett, at Imperial College London , writes: My grandfather, Norman Marshall Woodcock, was called up on the day that war was dec...
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How good ideas get killed

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Borrowed from Lucien Engelen on Facebook.  This reminds me of some places I've visited!
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Thursday, October 30, 2014

How Lean dies

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This story was recently related to me about a hospital in which the Lean process improvement philosophy was adopted, with strong support an...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Up to date in Kansas

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Melissa Clarkson, from Kansas, is the relative a patient who suffered serious harm from a series of medical errors, and she writes an occas...
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The vultures are at work

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Two articles in the Boston Globe set forth the view that Gary Gottlieb's leaving Partners Healthcare System was seen " as a way t...
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