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Gawande and Pronovost agree that checklists can be faulty and that they need to be studied carefully before and during implementation. "Safety should be a patient's right," says Pronovost. "If you are going to ask doctors to give up their autonomy and accept these standards, they have to be based on sound science and implemented wisely...
...People always ask me why I still want to play, but I want to know why no one will give me an opportunity. It's like they put a stamp on me: 'Hall of Fame. You're done. That's it.' It's a goddamn shame." - On his inability to make it back into the major league because, as he suspected, most people took it for granted that would make it into the Hall of Fame one day, The New Yorker, Sept...
...that play into the government's decision to come back to the judge and ask for Madoff to be jailed? I don't think so. I know the prosecutors who made these decisions, and they are straight shooters who are not influenced by public opinion. I think they made a reasonable calculation the first time, and I think Madoff's flagrant disobeyance is good grounds to rethink that...
...these findings reason enough to ask mothers of premature girls to start popping fish-oil capsules? Probably not, says Dr. David Adamkin, director of neonatal medicine at University of Louisville. "This study looks at giving babies nutrients that we know they don't get enough of in utero because they are born too early," he says. "While an 18-month follow up is okay, an eight-year follow up is going to be much better. We need more time to see if these differences are really going to persist...
...cover much of the territory Clinton will likely have to deal with early in her tenure. Senator Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican and a mentor of sorts to Obama, is particularly interested in containing Russia's bad behavior in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Democrats will ask Clinton about plans to withdraw from Iraq, close Guantánamo Bay and boost troop levels in Afghanistan. Junior Republicans, like Lisa Murkowski, will ask about regional issues, like the U.S.'s role in the Arctic...