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Thursday, September 22, 2022

Culture in the Healthcare Industry

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A couple of articles recognizing the importance of cultural factors in the healthcare space recently caught our attention.  The authors brea...
Friday, July 29, 2022

A Lesson from the Accounting Profession: Don’t Cheat on the Ethics Test

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SEC Order Accounting, like many professions, requires practitioners to regularly demonstrate competence and familiarity with relevant knowle...
Monday, June 6, 2022

Guiding People to Better Decisions: Lessons from Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

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Safetymatters reports on organizational culture, the values and beliefs that underlie an organization’s essential activities.   One such act...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

The Criminalization of Safety in Healthcare?

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On March 25, 2022 a former nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) was convicted of gross neglect of an impaired adult and negl...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

A Massive Mental Model: Lessons from Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio

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At Safetymatters, we have emphasized several themes over the years, including the importance of developing complete and realistic mental mod...
Friday, December 10, 2021

Prepping for Threats: Lessons from Risk: A User’s Guide by Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

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Gen. McChrystal was a U.S. commander in Afghanistan; you may remember he was fired by President Obama for making, and allowing subordinates ...