| Higher education–who is the“customer” - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:36:35 +0000 |
| Throughout my career I have worked as a medical school faculty member. I took my first job with the naive belief that my main job involved teaching medical students and residents. Over the years I have learned that those who do this job extremely well still may not advance, unless they do the other things [...] |
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| The danger of weekend admission - Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:51:05 +0000 |
| We who work in hospitals know that most hospitals do not work as well on weekends as during the week. I have worked at several hospitals over the years, and every hospital is understaffed on weekends. Patients 'more likely to die' if admitted at weekends The study, in the Journal of the Royal Society of [...] |
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| The danger of assumptions in medicine - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:23:39 +0000 |
| Early in my academic career I became fascinated with decision analysis. I still like decision analysis as a strategy to make explicit the structure of a problem. However, over time the major weakness of decision analysis became very clear. The problem derives from the assumptions. As usual, I will use pharyngitis to frame the problem. [...] |
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