Health IT - but you promised…

It's not what you say, but how you say it.

IRWA’s Communication/Acquisition Courses emphasize that successful right of way agents, when conducting an acquisition, listen far more than they talk and typically demonstrate exceptional listening skills. Scholars researching the field of human behavior and communication have concluded that the best negotiators, which would include the best right of way acquisition agents, not only have outst...

Professionalism: hard to measure but you know it when you see it

Professionalism: hard to measure but you know it when you see it I n 1992, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) convened a committee, which produced a white paper entitled Project Professionalism (1). chaired the committee. The paper emphasized values and ethics standards that would be required for board certification (2). It also pointed out that suboptimal professional behavior nega...

Rotational atherectomy: you will never regret using it but you often regret not having used it!

You Wrote It; You Own It!

Authors of papers published in Rockefeller University Press journals (The Journal of Cell Biology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, or The Journal of General Physiology) now retain copyright to their published work. This permits authors to reuse their own work in any way, as long as they attribute it to the original publication. Third parties may use our published materials under a Creativ...

It Ain’t What You Do (But the Way That You Do It): Will Safety II Transform the Way We Do Patient Safety; Comment on “False Dawns and New Horizons in Patient Safety Research and Practice”

Mannion and Braithwaite outline a new paradigm for studying and improving patient safety – Safety II. In this response, I argue that Safety I should not be dismissed simply because the safety management strategies that are developed and enacted in the name of Safety I are not always true to the original philosophy of ‘systems thinking.’