Saturday 30 January 2010
In his latest column, Kaiser Family Foundation president Drew Altman analyzes The Message From Massachusetts. Health care reform was a top issue for voters, he concludes, but their message wasn’t a simplistic “no” to reform.
Archive for January, 2010:
Friday 29 January 2010
This is the transcript of Part 2 of my recent podcast interview with Dr. Robert Wachter and Dr. Arpana Vidyarthi of UCSF.
Thursday 28 January 2010
This is the transcript of Part 1 of my recent podcast interview with Dr. Robert Wachter and Dr. Arpana Vidyarthi.
Wednesday 27 January 2010
You can see numerous ice balls that have formed in Lake Michigan and along the shore in the Chicago Tribune video below. Wind, wave motion and a temperature just below freezing likely contributed to the creation of the ice spheres. There are some photographs of the ice balls here. Also, some much larger ice balls were discovered off the swedish coastline earlier this year.
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Tuesday 26 January 2010
Patient safety pioneer Dr. Robert Wachter is Chief of the Medical Service at UCSF Medical Center and Dr. Arpana Vidyarthi is Director of Quality. They have recently re-engineered UCSF’s medical peer review process and adopted an electronic platform from Acesis to make the process faster, safer and more objective.