TO TREAT OR CURE THEM YOU MUST KEEP THEM SAFE
TO TREAT OR CURE THEM YOU MUST KEEP THEM SAFE
This post is partially in response to an April editorial in JAMA, which begins with: “When Hippocrates advised physicians to never give a deadly drug, he assumed they would know for sure that the medicines they prescribed were safe. Today, criminals...
 According to a recent article published by the Washington Post, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has mandated that Rabbit owners must develop a disaster plan for their small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha. Experts were...
We have written for years about how vulnerable hospitals are as "soft targets" for Terrorists, and it remains true despite the fact that we in the US have yet to suffer from a coordinated assault on a healthcare facility. We have seen multiple attacks over time in...
Based on good responses and comments on LinkedIn and our site, we went back to our 2006 contributions to the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management, Monograph, Volume 26, Issue 2 to review those comments relative to the Religion and the end of Life. Although, there was...
The issue of “End of Life Decisions†and when and who makes those existential calls are and have been the subject of considerable controversy, and which I have watched over many years. In 2006, I was a participant in an American Society...
The recent CNN Opinion piece “Bringing medical misdeeds into the light†ruffled the feathers of the 6,000 members of the American Society of Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM). The article came to the...
Few would question that the triple + one all-hazards threats are measurably greater than when the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 21 was released by the White House in 2007 (Public Health and Medical Preparedness). Evolving Infectious Diseases, More Frequent...
The perfect setting, perfect timing, perfect sizing, and perfect response. The City of Boston is and should be proud of its outstanding response to the dreaded “terrorist bombâ€. Nothing said here should take away any of the...
Over the last two decades, we have analyzed terrorist groups and the potential for likely future attacks-and target strategy based on the tactics which seemed to achieve the desired outcome. Chechen Separatists tactics “ran the table†on...
Day one: We witnessed a cacophony of information and misinformation based on verified, unverified fact and fiction. Sins of omission and commission drove many to see or hear what they wanted to see or hear. When you tell me that there is “black...
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