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...hours will not get her in a romantic mood. You’ll find that the movie theater is the perfect place for a first date. Movies are great because both of you can enjoy yourselves without even talking to each other, thereby reducing the chances that you will screw up. This is a well-known risk management technique they teach over at the B-School. Also, make sure to ask her if she wants any popcorn or candy from the concession stand. She will say no, because girls always say no, but get her something anyway?...
...privacy. The same holds true for anyone who goes to a doctor who is also a friend; you run the risk of losing both. This is the hard fact that doctors know and patients have a hard time believing: it's not just bad doctors who screw up. To an outsider, everything that happens in a hospital has an air of magic, and the people in the coats seem like wizards. But doctors know that physicians are people too, who can get tired, or distracted, or simply one day fall a millimeter short of perfection, sometimes with disastrous consequences...
...always equal safety. "Technology should remove the burden, but you can get problems. You can hide behind technology and spend more time talking to your computer than to your patients," says Dr. Albert Wu, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. "And as with any new thing, people screw things up worse before they make things better." Doctors say there is a temptation to trust computers too much: they seem objective and infallible, but if the wrong information is entered in the first place, or the bar-coded wristband is put on the wrong patient, it can be harder...
...Simmons ’06 and Robert J. Everett ’06 tied for second place, applying their engineering skills to create projects that would improve surgical techniques. Working with DePuy Spine, a Massachusetts-based company dedicated to the manufacture of orthopedic devices, Simmons developed a pedicle screw system for osteoporotic bone, what McKay Professor of Engineering Robert D. Howe calls “an amazingly original idea.” This device would be used in patients who undergo spinal fusion, the most common surgical remedy for back pain, according to Simmons’ abstract. Because older patients...
Frank Redmond (Peter Mullan, “Trainspotting”), like many other leading men in feel-good films, is rebelling against the stagnation of middle age. Recently fired, totally unable to communicate with his family, and grappling with a painful past, Frank decides to screw what everyone else thinks and pursue an absurd personal goal: he wants to swim the English Channel...