Thursday, October 29, 2015

You can't stay ahead of these errors.

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Remember the story about my MD friend's elderly mother , the one who was suffering from falls because she was over-medicated for bloo...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Good news for C. diff patients: The "Poop Pill" arrives.

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Way back in December 2013 , I introduced my readers to OpenBiome, a start-up formed by a couple of MIT graduate students who had a new conc...

A new concept: Acceptable preventable harm

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Blogger Melissa Clarkson offers a wryly humorous take on a goal established by the CMS Partnership for Patients, to reduce preventable har...
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Monday, October 26, 2015

An example of superb medical training

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I have made a serious commitment on this blog to promulgate the best in medical education, with a strong emphasis on programs that focus on...
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Sunday, October 25, 2015

Riding the Cancer Coaster

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Several months ago, through a virtual friendship with her father, I got to know a young lady named Clarissa Schilstra.  She is a lovely a...
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If you can't change people, change people.

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My friend and colleague Michael Wheeler, in his excellent book The Art of Negotiation , notes: "Negotiation is never about us alone....
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Friday, October 23, 2015

Only certain people

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A person who has over 3000 friends on Facebook saw no irony in posting the picture above in her status bar.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Being less alone together

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Above, seen on a table at the back of a conference room during a staff all-day negotiation, team-building, and communication workshop.  I...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

The story from Consorci Sanitari del Garraf

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"In 2009, three medical facilities in the comarca del Garraf, near Barcelona, merged into one organization, the Consorci Sanitari d...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

The vestigial newspaper

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It isn't often that I take someone's comment on a story and use it as the heart of a post, but someone named Greg Lee nailed it and...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

In appreciation: Maureen Bisognano and Jim Roosevelt

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It's a big day for transitions in health care here in Massachusetts. Maureen Bisognano has announced that she will step down as head ...
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Madaket is not just a beach on Nantucket

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To understand corporate nimbleness and creativity, read this story and then compare it to my previous one about IBM . As I've note...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Big data, big deal

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Cousin Dave hamming it up in the 1960s The joke goes like this: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson decide to go on a camping trip. Af...
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Thursday, October 08, 2015

Shared baselines as a guide to protocols

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There have been some interesting and important discussions flying across the web in recent days on the issue of protocols in helping to re...
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Tuesday, October 06, 2015

An error about mistakes

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There are few neurologists I admire more than Martin Samuels, chief of service at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.  So it truly ...
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Monday, October 05, 2015

"Protocols are for nurses."

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Every now and then you hear something so dramatically stupid that you have to wonder. One such example was a couple years back, when some...
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Sunday, October 04, 2015

Marty teaches about mathematics and learning

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My buddy Sam came home from back-to-school night at Wellesley Middle School inspired by his son's math teacher, Marty Wagner .  He rela...
Thursday, October 01, 2015

Two books

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I'm often asked to read books and post reviews here, and I thus find my bookshelf overly full.  I just can't get to them all.  (Ind...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Building resiliency

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What's the secret of building resiliency, the ability to withstand unexpected challenges, into your organization?  Lots of leaders I ...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

In appreciation: Vivian Li

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The worth of a city can be measured in part by the caliber of the people who devote themselves to its improvement.  By that measure, Bo...