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...that interns lack oversight, senior clinicians lack accountability and nurses need to be reminded to double-check medication dosages. We all make mistakes because we are human. But too many physicians avoid oversight and accountability to one another to hide their fallibility. The way to make health care as error free as possible is to ensure that no decision is made in isolation. Patient safety will not improve until doctors lead the way by openly examining what they do and how they do it--and by embracing change. RICHARD BJERKE, M.D. Pittsburgh...
This story makes me laugh because it sounds so much like another story that has gotten a lot more play in the media and in campus political circles. Harvard students have no trouble accepting the idea that rural, God-fearing po’ folk have made some ridiculous error and voted for the party that makes their lives miserable. We look out over middle America and say, “Well, Buffy, I guess they’re just too dumb to vote Democrat. If only they realized that Republicans are using social issues to delude them, then they?...
...Carlos Lopes, the managing director of the Hotel Bel-Air, asked a breakfasting guest early last year what he thought of the renovations to the suite he was occupying, the guest replied, "Well, it's not my personal taste." Fortunately for an unnerved Lopes, the man eventually added, [an error occurred while processing this directive] "But my wife loves it." It turned out to be a rare bit of negative feedback about the venerable property's $20 million upgrade, which is now fully complete. "Overwhelmingly, the patrons said the new look was in keeping with the image," he recalls...
Spitalfields is a London neighborhood with a dual personality. It borders the financial district, but walk 10 minutes to the east and you hit deprived public-housing projects. The area's focal point is Spitalfields market, founded in 1887 and still going strong, in part [an error occurred while processing this directive] due to the controversial development of the western side. Under an arching transparent canopy, mainstream shops and restaurants, which moved in over the winter, are now doing a brisk trade alongside the established stalls peddling eclectica...
...runs her camp for 12 weeks a year in the Spanish hilltop village of Gaucín in Andalucia. But it's a movable raw-food feast, with two additional weeks planned in Cornwall, England, this year, and in 2007, for the first time, a long-haul retreat [an error occurred while processing this directive]on St. Barts in the French West Indies. Accommodation in all locations is plush, and no more than 10 participants are accepted at one time. So why did my husband and I consign ourselves to this exclusive penitentiary? An old friend and retreat veteran bamboozled...