January 2011
11 posts
Checklists Save Lives... →
… and cut malpractice claims. So read a recent headline out of Reuters. The article highlighted a study published recently in the Annals of Surgery which examined a checklist system used in the Netherlands. The authors found that many of the medical errors exposed by lawsuits were related directly to items covered by their checklist system. They felt that many of these error claims could have been...
“An authority isn’t a person or institution who is always right — ain’t no such...”
– Clay Shirky on Wikipedia’s 10th Anniversary
via Andrew Sullivan
(via jericsinger)
Touch Consult Bootstraps →
Ever thought about starting a company? Bootstrapping is one way to go. It’s how we’re doing it. It’s sweet and sour, but mostly pretty sweet. Read on…
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Learning to Walk
I mentioned in a previous post that we have a little boy at home who has just learned to walk- now run. What is interesting about watching my son learn to walk is that there seems to have been a trade off going on. Every baby’s experience is different of course (friends of ours said that their son never crawled, just went from sitting to walking). But here is our experience.
Pretty soon...
“Society is a collective concept and nothing else; it is a convenience for...”
– Frank Chodorov
“Patients should be treated like people not pinballs”
– Christian DiPaola MD, orthopedic spine surgeon and my (twin) brother
Spokeo →
There’s a site called Spokeo that aggregates people’s name and personal info like home price etc. They obtain data from Facebook and other sites. If you want to protect what little there is left of your privacy by staying off Spokeo, you can “opt out” by following the instructions. If you don’t want to then just move along.
1. Go to the site www.spokeo.com
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“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead trying to kill me....”
– George Orwell, London 1941