The health care debate has occupied much of our energies this past year in the United States. We have seen multiple plans, arcane exceptions and a whole lot of opinion on what should, and what should not, be done to remedy what has been termed an intolerable situation by any number of talking heads. In […]
If you are doing almost anything related to health care today, being “evidence based” is de rigueur. Even when it is not obligatory to do so, claiming to be “evidence based” conveys a measure of credibility nowadays that is valuable to have. So state Earl Steinberg and Bryan Luce in “Evidence Based? Caveat Emptor!” (Health […]
I hope to have encouraged many of you to view health care as a Complex Adaptive System. In such a system, multiple independent self-selecting agents interact with each other and the system in ways only partially predictable. The agents and the system coevolve, according to relatively simple rules, with nonlinear outcomes produced at inflection points. […]
Almost 40 years ago as a first-year medical student, I was toiling away in the gross anatomy laboratory attempting to learn the intricacies of the “complicated” human body. The instructor, a gruff general surgeon perhaps 80 years old with a cigar stuffed into his mouth (yes, those were different times) asked me where I was […]
It rises like an ancient bird of prey, powerful, beautiful and perfectly designed for its purpose. Though it last sailed 1000 and more years ago, there is no mistaking the beauty, speed, and capability exuding from its elegant prow. At 24 meters long and 5 meters wide, the Gokstad ship at the Viking Ship Museum […]
First off, I am honored to contribute to this blog. Over the next few weeks, I hope to engage you with applications of Complexity Theory and Sense Making to a topic that is extensively debated and highlighted in the US at this time: health care. I hope to have comments! This is a lively topic, […]
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