Friday, January 09, 2015

With Roger Bannister in London

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I can't let this week close without reporting what a treat it was to present a paper in the Roger Bannister Audtorium at Imperial Co...
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Thursday, January 08, 2015

Just wondering

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Beth Kutscher at Modern Healthcare reports that for-profit hospital chains have done well and are poised for higher profits as a result o...
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A reporter who cares, too

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Right after New Year's Day, I commented on a "top ten" list prepared by Akanksha Jayanthi at Becker's Hospital Review...
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In pursuit of the big data Holy Grail

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About every six months, one of the young brilliant and enthusiastic "big data" people who hang out in the MIT neighborhood near...
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Tuesday, January 06, 2015

Disaster for the public as cancer treatments succeed!

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I know I shouldn't make fun of this because it is a serious topic, but when you read the headlines in the British press, you might wond...
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New transparency website from WSHA

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I always love hearing from my buddy Beth Zborowski at the Washington State Hospital Association.  That organization and its members have ...
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Monday, January 05, 2015

Seeking a system that treats us all humanely

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As 2015 begins, let's turn back to last January's aeon article by Ilana Yurkiewicz.  Simple, direct, and incontrovertible.  (Thank...
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Sunday, January 04, 2015

Oh, NS-LIJ, we hardly knew ye.

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In a post below , I wondered whether a publicity campign by a urologist to encourage women to get their male mates to have PSA and testoste...
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Friday, January 02, 2015

The worst of the top ten lists

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New Year's Day seems to prompt lots of "top" lists: Top books, top movies, whatever.  Many are cause for wonder, nostalgia, o...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

A tactic worthy of used car salesmen

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I understand my educational limitations with regard to making medical judgments, but I have to conclude that a recent campaign by a New Y...
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Is it businesslike or businesslike? The difference is pretty important.

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Budd Shenkin offers perceptive observations in a recent blog post , following up on my story about Heartland Regional Medical Center's...
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IPI helps inform patients

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There are so many well intentioned people working to improve patient care from "the outside," often focused on creating true cl...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Tea Time with The Toast Dude Webinar

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Bruce Hamilton is one of my Lean heroes, and we have used his Toast Kaizen video with audiences around the world.  Now, his host organiza...
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Lean sailors win

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A note arrived from The High Velocity Edge 's, Steve Spear: Here's the predicament: you show up at a sailing regatta, and when...

Don't be a nail just because your doctor is a hammer

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A friend writes:   When my daughter was a year old, she was given a diagnosis of "Failure to Thrive." The definition is s...
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Sunday, December 28, 2014

In memoriam: John Bewick

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If John Bewick had a mean bone in his body, no one I knew ever found evidence of it. As noted in this obituary , he died on Christmas...
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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Enjoying life during the Depression in Four Corners

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Here are a couple stories of Boston from my friend Charlie Sandler, who was born in 1932 and grew up in the Depression-era Four Corners ...
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Friday, December 26, 2014

A son's tribute to his MD father

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MK Sheikh wrote a lovely essay a few months ago about his father.  I have been saving it for the right time and now present some excerpts ...
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Thursday, December 25, 2014

A Christmas Gift

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Take five minutes to listen to this lovely interview between Terry Gross and Maurice Sendak, taped a few years ago.  Great graphic accom...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Boston Harbor Anniversary: Swimmable and fishable

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Now, this was a great day in 1991 .  Instead of having a big event with elected and regulatory officials who would have stolen the scene...