Cutting GMC investigations must not simply devolve problems elsewhere

With Oral Chemotherapy, We Simply Must Do Better!

PROBLEM: Many health care organizations have focused on improving safety with parenteral chemotherapy but have done less to ensure safe practices with oral chemotherapy. Although oral chemotherapy is associated with ease of administration, an error with an oral agent can be just as deadly as an error with a parenteral formulation. Two years ago Ruth Ann Collins, a 60-year-old woman with a histo...

Children—Not Simply “Little Adults”

What Problems Must Criminalistics Solve

Some Things Must Not Change.

The past three months have been a season of tremendous change, and many of us have been surprised by the political events that have taken place. January heralds a change in administration for the United States, and the future seems uncertain. I sense that change is going to be the new normal, and we have to be able to cope with it-and with each other-for a long time. What I want to talk about i...

Protecting brains, not simply stimulating minds.

Curricular enhancements in early childhood education that are guided by the science of learning must be augmented by protective interventions informed by the biology of adversity. The same neuroplasticity that leaves emotional regulation, behavioral adaptation, and executive functioning skills vulnerable to early disruption by stressful environments also enables their successful development thr...