In fairness to
your schedule, I’m giving you another day to read yesterday’s New Yorker link.
It describes how the B17 – though wildly superior to anything else then flying – crashed on its
first test flight because it was just too complicated to fly. So – instead of scrapping the plane – they added
the first-ever pilot “checklist” . . . and
from then on it performed beautifully and became the workhorse of the war. A similar thing has happened in hospital
Intensive Care Units. Astonishing drops
in error rates, costs, and lost lives through the addition of simple check
lists. It’s a story that needs to become
“urgent common knowledge” so that every hospital quickly adopts this
practice.
Or, if you
did read it yesterday, how about the links from Tuesday about superdelegates, Miami and Florida?
No? Not enough?
You want more?
Okay, but this is
my final offer/ing:
FUN
Kathi
Derevan: “I’m not big on sending
‘cool’ websites, but this
one really does deserve a look.”
F It brightened my day.