December 2010
9 posts
Haiti: Where the Aid System has Failed to Stop...
doctorswithoutborders:
Today, the Guardian published an op-ed by MSF International President: “Haiti should be an unlikely backdrop for the latest failure of the humanitarian relief system. The country is small and accessible and, following last January’s earthquake, it hosts one of the largest and best-funded international aid deployments in the world. Why then, have at least 2,500 people died...
Would you sue a good friend? →
jayparkinsonmd:
I think this is the main reason why malpractice lawsuits are so prevalent in America. Patients are suing a faceless entity with whom they have no relationship. From a recent study about discharging patients from the hospital:
Only 18% of patients knew the name of the physician in charge of their care (most physicians assumed the patient knew)
43% of patients could not state...
Compassionate Consumerism: links and resources
The way I look at it, the topic of compassionate consumerism is divided into 3 categories: production/design, consumption, and creative reuse. and they’re all really important aspects to rethinking our relationships with the good we buy and use (and the way that these companies market their respective brands), so I separated them as such: Production:
IDEO’s Human-Centered Design...