The new version of Mac OS X has been released. Yea! And, although it will be delivered to my door at home Monday, I'm at a conference on a small island in a state that doesn't have a single Apple Store (South Carolina--who knew?). Poor planning on my part.
Note to self: always check conference dates for conflict with major apple announcement dates or OS update releases. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
Micromat, publisher of TechTool Pro (own it!) has released Syphone, an OS X applications which allows you to 'view, save, and backup' SMS messages. This is handy for when you have a particularly funny series of text messages like this:
The CDC has created a new web site with influenza-related information that is a) informative and b) pretty. Take a look: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/ .
Six sigma. Lean six sigma. High reliability organizations. Hospital administrators seem to drool over this stuff. Many are willing to go out and spend lots of money on six sigma consultants to come in to their hospitals and integrate the buzz words.
What many hospital administrators don't realize (or conveniently forget) is that anesthesiology is a six sigma specialty within medicine. That is, there are fewer than six mishaps per million events. That safety attitude is ingrained in us from the first day or residency. We live and breath six sigma and evidence-based medicine.
So, hospital administrator, the next time an endocrinologist comes to you with a plan to give insulin to non-critically ill, non-diabetic patients with a blood glucose over 120 right before their general anesthetic and the entire group of anesthesiologist says 'I don't think that's a very good idea,' pause, take a deep breath, and listen to what they have to say.
Six sigma is a way of thinking. Six sigma trumps three sigma any day of the week.
