Emphasizing consensus over dissent, according to James Surowiecki in The Wisdom of Crowds, people in small groups are inclined toward agreement. Just think back to any primary grade when you said something contrary to the views of your naive, adolescent peers. Few people enjoy such dissonance, and as Surowiecki says, tend to “prefer the illusion of . . . → Read More: The Illusion of Certainty
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As a glimpse into things to come National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nursing union announced a one day strike for June 10, 2010 . The good thing is that most of us don’t believe RN’s and unionization make sense, (about 21% of RN’s are unionized according to the BLS) it run’s contrary to the notion . . . → Read More: RN Strike June 10, 2010 – A Failure of Leadership In regard to portability and ease-of-use, competing with a pen and piece of paper is difficult. We all know how a pen works, paper is lite and is easily moved about – there is no “down time” or “learning curve”; in addition, pharmaceutical and medical device companies will gladly give you all the pen’s you might . . . → Read More: Medical Practice and 20% of Income from Cash It was C.S. Lewis who, in his unforgettable Screwtape Letters, wrote: “The greatest evil is not done now in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not even done in concentration camps and labor camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried . . . → Read More: A Preamble a Health Reform Vote A good predictor of the future events will either tell you that something is likely to happen, or when something is likely to happen, but never both. We’ve heard a lot of nonsense in regard to non-sustainability, that is that some sort of un-named catastrophe will result if we don’t do something. In the late 1970′s economists . . . → Read More: Unsustainable Health Care? |
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