Nothing creates more panic in the eyes of office managers than holes in the schedule. While doctors may complain about too much work and no...

Grand Rounds is up with Pallimed . Included is an interview with Tony Clement, Canada's Minister of Health. Not an easy interview to g...

FreshMD has posted information given to refugees to Canada. It is as moving as it is simply. For instance, "In Canada, the law lets yo...

Yesterday I went to the “Gallup World Class Employee Engagement Seminar” to learn about best practices for employee engagement. You can read...

Grand Rounds is up today at Notes of an Anesthesioboist .

Happy left a wonderfully glib post to a lawyer who visited his site. You know this one is going to end in a comment battle and possibly a l...

I had a link from a new blog this week. Life in the Fast Lane is the writings of an ED physician from Australia. It is an eclectic mix of c...

Poka-Yoke is mistake proofing something. Anaesthesia is replete with these handy little tools. For instance the regulator for oxygen will on...

Few medical bloggers have gained greater access or more popular acceptance among the mainstream media than Dr. Valerie Jones. Under the pse...

The accolades are few and far between in the world of blogging for health care efficiency so I'll take it where I can get it. Check out...

In any continuous improvement project I've found one of the major hurdles to be keeping all of the team members on the same page. Grou...

The CHC published a report this week on the private clinics of Canada. They used anonymous telephone calls to multiple private or semi-priv...

I have a soft spot for Parkland Memorial Hospital . It is a county hospital that sees all-comers regardless of their ability to pay or legal...

In Part I of this series I discussed what we have done in our clinic to ‘lean’ nursing practices. The last 4 items are smaller but shave mi...

Everdream asked me to blog about Lean nursing practices. Disclaimer Our clinics are the equivalent of a ‘surgi-centre’ with both consultati...

I was accepted into the Healthcare Blogger Code of Ethics group this week. Follow the link in the bottom corner of the blog for more inform...

What do carbon taxes and health care user fees have in common? The Liberal Party of Canada has announced the Green Shift. A tax shift progr...

In both the United States and Canada debates were held on Oct 2, 2008. I was torn as to whether to watch the Biden/Pallin debate or the Cana...

This blog is a technical discussion for people that need to make IT decisions about document management. If you don't care about IT, ha...

Like many other residents I went for interviews at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. I have only two memories. One was the border agent givi...