According to yesterday’s newspaper, Gay Brewer died. If you are a golfer of a certain age or older, you’ll remember Gay Brewer as a hot shot on the PGA tour back in the 1960s. He was cool. I was a fan. Turns out that Gay Brewer died of lung cancer. Last week, I interviewed Dr. […]
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I read a story in my local paper yesterday entitled Internet gives angry consumers new power, which began with a story about a man named Sterling Bishop who was unhappy with the work Pep Boys had done on his car. Mr. Bishop made a video showcasing the shoddy work, put it out on You-Tube, and
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OK — here’s a pet peeve — thought I’d share it with you on a late summer Friday … Here’s what sparked it this morning: And joining Time Magazine is MSNBC: Or one more from MedicineNet – one of my favorite online health references: So can you tell what bugs me? Here it is: Somehow
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Two incidents in the past two days will make your hair stand on end. Both regard medical errors, and both involve the fear of making them public because of possible retaliation. A newspaper health reporter contacted me. He’s writing a story about MRSA and other hospital-acquired infections and asked if I knew of anyone he
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As I tooled down the highway on my way home last evening, I heard a commercial on my radio that needs to be shared with you. I was particularly interested because as important as the message was, I really had to wonder just who was paying for the commercial time! Because the message was not
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Some very positive steps are being taken in one Pittsburgh hospital, notable because they were taken on the intiative of the hospital and not because a gun was being held to the head of the decision-makers. This article from the NY Times makes me stand up to cheer. It tells about the efforts of the
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A report from the AP last week, and reported by the Washington Post, Fox News and others, describes a survey of more than 3,000 doctors in both the US and Canada about their reactions to their own mistakes. The survey was developed and issued by the Joint Commission (JCAHO), the body that accredits hospitals and
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My colleague Betsy McCaughey, chair of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, publishes in July’s Best Hospitals 2007 of US News and World Report that hospitals must begin to take responsibility for their infection rates, and begin to take the necessary steps to clean themselves up. She cites a study that shows that “65 percent
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