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I wrote this essay years ago, but have been thinking about the issue alot during these difficult times.  As we face this coronavirus crisis, some people are jumping in, working […]

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, […]

My co-author of Beyond the Checklist, Patrick Mendenhall, just posted this on our blog www.beyondthechecklist.com.  There are obviously many parellels to health care — notably over reliance [...]

When we discuss the feasibility of team training in health care, many medical professionals insist that the aviation safety model can never be applied to the healthcare workplace.  Why?  Because [...]

One of the greatest accomplishments of the Aviation Safety Model (ASM), Crew Resource Management (CRM) has been the creation of what Schein and Bennis and Edmondson have called [...]