Writing about safety and quality in healthcare. Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and (formerly) Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, among others
Lunenburg, Mass.
Joined December 2008
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My fave story of a day!
How was CNN able to break the news on Trump pleading not guilty, despite devices ban?
By hiring a group of Miami high school students who ran info out of the courtroom and dictated it via pay phone.
Great behind-the-scenes look by @oliverdarcy: cnn.com/2023/06/13/media/cnn…
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In your spare time? Thanks for all you do to help us understand…
BREAKING: new episode on the first federal indictment.
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So, it's not just FL
State Farm will no longer insure California homes. The climate-insurance-property values doom loop intensifies. Still no mention of impact on tax base or mortgage lenders, but it will be big, and will exacerbate the hit to property values.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/clima… 1/
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In my family, it was "grilled cheese" until one of my then very young sons mistakenly called them "girl cheese sandwiches," which the whole family adopted and didn't outgrow for many years.
LIKE it or NOT⁉️
Myself and My Family call it a TOASTED cheese sandwich
My wife says It’s Grilled cheese and thinks we’re ridiculous!
It’s too late to tackle this debate tonight @LokayFOX5 … but one day… one day!
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The soporific effect of BBC radio's compilation of the Shipping Forecast: "weather reports that narrate the gales and tides around the British Isles." I, too, know the magic of slipping away, comforted by barely discernible radio voices @linden_gracie 1/2 nytimes.com/2023/02/14/magaz…
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The Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio. Even the comments are lovely: "There is something soothing about people talking around you as you fall asleep. It's reassuring. The home is guarded. The fire is maintained. Predators are kept away. You are safe." 2/2 youtube.com/watch?v=CxHa5KaM…
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Sky is brightening but it's still snowing in #LunenburgMA, where we have roughly 8 inches. What's up with the radar? Looks like the storm is long gone. @MattNBCBoston @PeteNBCBoston @GregForrister
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DuluthMN harbor canal webcam speaks to me in a deep way. My 94-yr-old dad–now in hospice, memory care–is #KingsPoint grad, worked whole career in maritime industry & US Dept of Trans. We watch together when I visit. youtu.be/Spe93JXz4vo via @YouTube
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DuluthMN harbor canal webcam speaks to me in a deep way. My 94-yr-old dad–now in hospice, memory care–is #KingsPoint grad, worked whole career in maritime industry & US Dept of Trans. We watch together when I visit. youtu.be/Spe93JXz4vo via @YouTube
Are we still seeing non-symptomatic cases of Covid? W/o known recent exposure and w/o symptoms, how useful is it to test? Dos vax status matter? I'm happy to test but not sure how this works at this point.
Returning to free Covid tests in the US 👍. They'll come in handy with upcoming gatherings, especially with the current wave gaining steam. Ordering starts tomorrow
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Are we still seeing non-symptomatic cases of Covid? W/o known recent exposure and w/o symptoms, how useful is it to test? Dos vax status matter? @michaelmina_lab @meganranney @Bob_Wachter
Video clips from Patient Safety Beat interviews are available on YouTube, starting here with Bob Hansom on using malpractice data to improve #patientsafety youtube.com/watch?v=3fBp6OXz…
That's quite a headline
Oklahoma set an execution date for a man who is not even in their custody. The feds said they won’t give him to the state. Oklahoma’s AG gave BOP until today to reverse course or he’ll “proceed accordingly” — likely going to court. My latest @lawdorknews: lawdork.com/p/will-the-biden…
Great advice in this thread for the media & potential sources. So glad to see you included in @edyong209's story on ME/CFS and Long COVID theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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Congrats to @hayfarani on becoming Chief Patient Safety Officer @TJCommission. See our conversation and video clip betsylehmancenterma.gov/news…
My first interview in the new role @TJCommission
- A huge thank you to Susan Carr and the @BetsyLehmanCtr.
Safety starts and ends at the bedside.
I thought the visual experience of my recent cataract surgery was pretty amazing. Brain surgery… I can hardly imagine!!
FWIW, awake brain surgery—from my patient perspective—might be the closest thing to space travel without leaving Earth.
Must first travel to space to confirm hypothesis, but I am sticking to this thought until proven otherwise.