Back home again after 5 days of IVAC. Aunt Kathy and Uncle Dave are here and we’ll have a quiet time. They’re doing Chinese Food tonight, but I’m not allowed restaurant food. Ate chicken soup with toast and hummus.
Maureen injected me with a $500 Neulasta rescue shot tonight to help my body recover from all the toxins. Amazing what stuff costs. According to Bill Banks, a single bag of Rituximab, of which I’ve had two, costs $13,000. Of course, it’s grown from mouse cells so you would expect it to be pretty pricey. Not much juice in a mouse.
Have been corresponding with Lisa Kearns who sent me an article on system safety from the 2004 National Patient Safety Congress in Boston.
http://www.ajj.com/services/pblshng/nej/article024245.pdf1
It’s interesting and bears out my recent conclusions that 1) DFBWCC is in the lead in implementing system safety, and 2) there are multiple channels in the medical world where it is already being implemented and/or could be done better. If I write a paper based on my experiences, I think I will focus on the patient in system safety. The patient, if active and engaged – we’ll assume motivation – can be a valuable member of the team, and if educated in what is going on has much to contributes. I think this also ties in well with ideas if agile development in the software field, where the client is very much part of the team and knows broadly what he or she wants, but not how to get it.
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