Operation Orchard – Syria is about to go nuclear, then somebody turned off the air defense radar & Israeli jets are inbound to target. This is September 6, 2007, not all that long ago. One moment the reactor is there, the next moment a hole in the desert. Go figure! Is it just coincidence that…
CERTS: Is it a breath mint or a candy mint? It is perhaps the second most vexing taxonomic dilemma of the 20th century, with the wave-particle duality of quantum physics edging first place by a hair. CERTS is part of American advertising folk lore. Since we’re not gunning for a fight we’ll just call it a “mint”…
OVERVIEW: Performance analytics provide the empirical basis for the strategic and tactical management of healthcare outcomes. As discussed in the referenced JAMA study, for every percentage increase in the guideline adherence rate in hospitals there was an equivalent decrease in the likelihood the patients treated would die before discharge. Ironically, in the 350 hospitals studied,…
In Greek drama the prologue was a device that explained the context of the play to the audience, introducing themes, background and relationships that they were about to see unfold.
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