Cause of Death: Sloppy Doctors

 Time has published an article which links death to poor handwriting.  According to one report 7,000 people are killed annual as the result of prescription mistakes that  can be tied directly to the physician’s poor handwriting.

The article goes on to make the point that many of these errors can be prevented or eliminated through the use of technology.  Obviously if this problem can be solved why hasn’t that happened?  Moreover, where is the outrage? 

As I recall the death of the 3000 men and women in Iraq was at the top of nearly every newscast and political speech in the days leading up to the November election.  Those deaths occurred over a nearly four year period.  Here Time has identified a problem that is killing twice as many people each and every year yet I don’t think I have ever heard anything about it on CNN?  Maybe handwriting is not a sexy enough topic to deserve even a 180 degree look from Anderson let alone a whole 360?!?

I wonder when people will begin to be outraged by this problem?  Especially given that the fix seems so simple to effectuate. Hmmm.

Link to Cause of Death: Sloppy Doctors — Monday, Jan. 15, 2007 — Page 1 — TIME

Rich Karlgaard of Forbes on the Costs of Doing Business in Detroit

Rich Karlgaard makes some good points in his blog today regarding the roles of the union with respect to the cost of doing business in Detroit.  His example clearly points out that the Japanese automakers save thousands of dollars per car over their Detroit counterparts.   

I don’t know how much simpler it can get.  Simply put you’ve got to have some great designs the make up for the difference in cost!

Link to Digital Rules By Rich Karlgaard

Dems promise return to a five-day workweek — sort of (HA)

 

Link to Dems promise return to a five-day workweek – sort of - CNN.com

The Democrats are promising to have a five day work week in the upcoming Congress.  The story points out the fact that they have already broken their promise in that many weeks of the next 2 months are really going to be short weeks.  Seems like more politics than actually getting things done!