Tag: over-prescribing

Madness, Death, and the Real Solution to Over-Prescribing Prescription Narcotics

October 21st, 2011
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Last month, the LA Times chronicled the stunning rise of deaths attributed to prescription drug overdose, particularly narcotics meant to manage pain. The push to control or manage all pain regardless of the legitimacy of the pain has made overdose from prescription drugs a bigger killer than heroin and cocaine combined, the story reported.  Incidentally, […]

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Posted in Life in the ER, Quality Efficiency Utilization

Incorporating Kaisen in Everyday Practice and the rise of LEAN in Emergency Care.

October 12th, 2011
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As a child, I remember my father would come home with stacks of spreadsheets, charts and graphs with the words “throughput”, “bottlenecks” and “LEAN” on them. Growing up in Detroit and being the son of a “Big Three” employee, I just assumed this was normal jargon in the automotive world. My father made many an […]

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Posted in Quality Efficiency Utilization