Disasters; Penmenship; Medical Errors

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• Senators Clinton and Obama Introduce Legislation to Increase Patient Safety, Reduce Medical Errors and Malpractice Costs
  “Patients and physicians are paying the price for a health care system that discourages the kind of communication needed to find and correct the conditions that lead to medical errors,” said Senator Clinton. “We need to do everything we can to put p
  (tags: medical_error medical_liability tort_reform)
• Penmanship
  Collect all the pharmaceutical pens you can lay your hands on. Then, when you get a problem customer, make a diagnosis and suggest some treatment options with the pen you give them to sign the check. It’s all harmless passive aggressive fun. Here are so
  (tags: pharmaceuticals humor)
• Modeling, Simulations Can Help a City Offer More Efficient Exodus
  Bottom line: If you have six lanes of freeway (of which three are contra-flow), then at 2,000 vehicles an hour per lane and 2.5 people per vehicle, you can get about 600,000 people out of a city every 24 hours. You can load more people into each car or us
  (tags: disasters science)