Embracing Ambiguity and Outliers in a VUCA World
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Medicine must learn to operate in a VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) world. The recognition of the importance of this is beginning, but... Read more.
Why Organizations Die While Cities Live Forever
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Why do organizations and companies die while cities seem to live on? Why did the Western Roman Empire end in 476 A.D while the Eastern counterpart lasted for almost... Read more.
The Destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria
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So many things have changed in the past five years, and yet, so much is the same as it was 16 centuries ago when ideology allowed the last remnant of the Great Library... Read more.
Health and Health Care: A Common Pool Resource?
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Could this be the impetus to establish a vertically and horizontally integrated Community of Practice for Health Care Professionals, providing them with the tools... Read more.
Medicine Needs Critical Thinking, not Critical Theory
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The credibility of Public Health institutions has been squandered. It will only be regained through insistence on accountability for past actions, the untangling... Read more.
Malcolm Gladwell’s Need for Critical Thinking
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This man whom I thought a giant in the world of Critical Thinkers is shown to be a political Tribalist. It is the triumph of Postmodernism where nothing of real... Read more.
Loss of the Medical Mezoi and Medical Citizenship
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The Medical Mezoi evaporated almost overnight. Hospital staff were no longer independent. There were two classes of physicians: the few members of the elite nobility... Read more.
Science, The Humanities, and Postmodernist Poison
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The exploration of whether or not the gulf between Science and The Humanities can be bridged will have to be put on hold. Sadly, both of those quests have been poisoned... Read more.
Time to Connect the Dots
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What ties The Center for Health Security, The Department of Defense, The World Economic Forum, Big Pharma, Fauci, Gates etc. together? Is it merely a consortium... Read more.
The Politicization of Medical Research
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Medical and scientific journals have broken with tradition to make political recommendations. Both Scientific American and the New England Journal of Medicine formally... Read more.
Medical Education: A Critical Crossroads
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Are there any indications that this change in direction for medical education is worthwhile? Fortunately, there are. In two widely separate locations, a focus on... Read more.
Medical Leadership Cannot Escape the ‘Misinformation’ Trap
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How ironic that in both these cases, it was the government—the body suggested by the medical leaders to be best qualified to police against “misinformation”... Read more.