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...Robert Johnson, a busy Southern California orthopedic surgeon, skidded instantly from doctor to patient one day as he walked toward the operating room, scrubbed hands raised, and slipped on a freshly mopped floor. He broke the scaphoid bone in his right wrist, a bone that anchors all the bones in the hand, especially vital for the physically demanding work of an orthopedic surgeon...
Although Johnson thinks his case was a "rare aberrant fluke," that's not exactly true. More than 1 in 3 doctors in a 2002 survey by the Harvard School of Public Health reported errors in their own or a family member's medical care. Dr. Robert Wachter, chief of the medical service at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, who co-wrote last year's best seller Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes, says he has seen it all: patients who had the wrong leg amputated, were given the wrong (and deadly...
...subject to such draconian and medieval penalties. Although the vast majority of Muslims are undoubtedly tolerant and happy to live in peace with their neighbors and those of other faiths, Islam lends itself to corruption by fundamentalist extremists who twist its teachings to serve their own perverted ends. Robert Readman Bournemouth, England...
...Robert Gregg Stone Jr. ’45-’47, an influential personage in University governance in his 27 years of service on the Harvard Corporation, died on Tuesday at age 83 due to complications following a stroke, the University announced yesterday...
...getting a lot of mundane messages,” Karim added, citing requests for the next day’s reading assignments and directions to the local bookstore among them. But in his twenty-plus years of teaching, Harvard College Professor and Clowes Professor of Science Robert P. Kirshner said that with a few exceptions, his “experience [with e-mail] has been almost uniformly positive.” “It’s a good channel. Students are much more likely to send you an e-mail than come to office hours...