Mea sententia

…a meaningfully usable and user friendly EHR.

It’s impossible to learn from one’s mistakes while busy denying or hiding them.

I recently read an online discussion about whether or not patients should have direct access to their own EKG.

First hike of the season and it’s official: I’m out of shape.
 
The plan was to do Baldpate via the AT from Grafton Notch, and I was enthusiastic enough to be fully packed before I went to bed the night before, up at 5:00, on the road at 6 and at the trailhead by 7:30:

W.S. Gilbert might have been writing about patients when he penned this lyric:

Things are seldom what they seem; 
Skim milk masquerades as cream.

I think there are some lessons to be learned from a recent scandal involving poor quality and safety failures at Stafford Hospital in England.

It’s easy to take people for granted. 

Over the last 44 years I have witnessed an unfortunate transformation in my chosen field of medicine.

Poor communication is the commonest cause of poor outcomes in medicine. Taking things for granted instead of asking questions is one form of poor communication.

My parents never yelled, let alone spanked. We always understood what was expected of us and feared failure rather than punishment. They expressed disappointment far more often than they showed anger. They often asked us to devise our own punishments. And, perhaps above all, they were masters of the object lesson.