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by Suzanne Gordon & Patrick Mendenhall As we have gone around the country discussing our book Beyond the Checklist: What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Teamwork and Safety, […]

Please see the article “The Road to High Reliability” written by Kevin Lacy, a retired BP executive. This was published in DecomWorld (direct link here). PDF download

It’s summer again and the newspaper book sections — the ones that are left that is — are full of summer reading lists.  So I want to offer a different […]

I just had this published in The Boston Globe Privatization won’t fix the VA By Suzanne Gordon May 27, 2014 First it was Social Security, then Medicare and Medicaid, and […]

In our book Beyond the Checklist: What Else Healthcare Can Learn from Aviation Safety and Teamwork and in an essay on “Teams, Teamwork, and Team Intelligence” that I did for […]

Over the past few months, I’ve spent a lot of time working with nursing students, medical students, and nurses, physicians, pharmacists and many others talking about interprofessional practice [...]

Last night I took a tango lesson with my daughter.  This is the third ballroom dancing experience I’ve had in several months and it has convinced me that social dancing […]