Lessons for Child Protection Moving Forward: How to Keep From Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic

Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Academic medicine--rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

● Teaching hospital costs are 30% to 40% higher than those of nonteaching hospitals (Prospective Payment Commission [PROPAC]). ● We are asked to reduce the size of medical school classes by 20% to 25% and to reduce the number of graduate medical training positions to the number of graduating students plus 10% (1995 Pew Commission). ● Indirect education costs add $10 billion/year to health care ...

Chronic disease care: rearranging the deck chairs.

The care of patients with chronic disease is one of the most urgent medical challenges in the United States. Chronic illness accounts for most of the demand, expense, and investments in scientific discovery. The well-documented shortcomings in medical quality and safety fall heavily on the shoulders of patients with these conditions (1). Meanwhile, the Medicare program moves steadily toward ins...

Alternative Aircraft Metrics – Useful or like moving the deck chairs on the Titanic?

Widespread criticism of the ANEF system to predict aircraft noise impacts has lead to the use of supplementary tools (N70, NXX, 10+,TA, daily ANEF). Do these tools work? Are they of benefit to the community or the aviation industry? Do they add confusion? Are they appropriate for military aircraft or general aviation? Australian Standard AS2021 [1] considers in the first instance the suitabilit...

An essay on rearranging the deck chairs: what's wrong with the cancer trials system?

Phase II Clinical Trial Design: Methods in Translational Research from the Genitourinary Committee at the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. Robert Gray, Judith Manola, Scott Saxman, John Wright, Jan Dutcher, Michael Atkins, Michael Carducci, William See, Christopher Sweeney, Glenn Liu, Mark Stein, Robert Dreicer, George Wilding, and Robert S. DiPaola .............................................