Tag: Errors
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: September 20, 2024
Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly...
Mistakes and Errors: A Circular Definition; Leadership Matters
When writing or speaking, I use the words "mistake" and "error" interchangeably. The definitions in some dictionaries are comically circular.
Dictionary.com defines an error as:
"a...
The Need to Error Proof Medication Vials, Including COVID Vaccines
I've given a few presentations about Lean and mass vaccination clinics, based on my visits (as a guest observer / learner and as somebody...
Why Did Some Patients Get Injected With 5X the Pfizer Covid...
Before I get into this post, I want to also point you to another post that I wrote for the Value Capture blog:
Salem Health...
Using a Checklist is Better Than Reprimanding Someone and Saying “Don’t...
I bet the company that services my pool was surprised that I had a checklist-related process improvement suggestion for them after a mistake was made instead of being angry and wanting somebody punished or talked to...
#Throwback Thursday: Wrong House Gets Demolished (And It Happened Again)
Today's Throwback Thursday looks back to an article from April 2010:
Should Have Posted a "Caution: Don't Knock Our House Down" Sign?
A house in Denton,...
Medical Mistake in In-Vitro Fertilization: What’s More Effective, Blaming Process or...
IVF baby given to wrong woman - as couple's last embryo was aborted | Mail Online
This was front-page news in one of the UK...