Chloride Ion Is Not the Enemy

ROI is Not the Enemy (May 07)

• ROI and the financial analysis of the benefits of training is not always the most important factor in evaluation, but it is certainly one amongst many important factors which can be considered. • ROI is not essential or even necessary for every form of training, but it is vital in many cases. • ROI and Kirkpatrick’s model of evaluation are not mutually exclusive; in fact I deem that both are ...

Users Are Not the Enemy

Who Is the Enemy?

Who Is the Enemy? We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people in common cause against a common enemy. The groups compete for rents obtained from the public by engaging in actions against the common enemy. We derive a condition under which the c...

Patient assistance programs: information is not our enemy.

K en johnson of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and Myrl Weinberg of the National Health Council take issue with findings from our survey of drug company–sponsored patient assistance programs (PAPs).1 Our disagreement is partly the result of a healthy debate on how best to structure our health care system. More problematic are the commentaries’ mischaracterizations ...

David Oliver: Hospitals are not the enemy.

Even as an acute hospital doctor I recently shouted at the television, whenNewsnight reduced a debate on the whole NHS to one about hospitals, “There are other services, you know!” I understand why non-hospital staff are even more exasperated at the obsession with hospitals. The health service’s internal commentariat repeatedly blames hospitals, and the frontline staff who work in them, for the...