Call them mental models, call them viewpoints, the point is the same: the box in which we conceive of what’s possible serves as an artificial barrier that confines our thinking.
Tag: death
We used to joke about the name of Midway Hospital, an acute care hospital in L.A., saying that it was midway between life and death.
We used to joke about the name of Midway Hospital, an acute care hospital in L.A., saying that it was midway between life and death.
An anesthesiologist, commenting on my theme that inpatient care is becoming outpatient care and that the center of outpatient care isn’t the hospital but the freestanding facility, in his case the ASC, told me that I was missing an element in the analysis.
Back in October, 2020, I wrote, in a post called City Loses Hospitals Like We Lose Our Keys…
Quick quiz: If a patient or a payor has the choice of having a procedure performed (A) on a hospital inpatient basis, or (B) on an outpatient basis, then, assuming it’s safe to perform that procedure on that patient in either setting, at which setting will it be performed?
We used to joke about the name of Midway Hospital, an acute care hospital in L.A., saying that it was midway between life and death.
Evolutionary psychologists say that the reason we see a stick on the trail ahead of us as a snake is that it’s far better for our survival to see sticks as snakes than snakes as sticks.
Quick quiz: If a patient or a payor has the choice of having a procedure performed (A) on a hospital inpatient basis, or (B) on an outpatient basis, then, assuming it’s safe to perform that procedure on that patient in either setting, at which setting will it be performed?
Evolutionary psychologists say that the reason we see a stick on the trail ahead of us as a snake…
Chances are, you’ve lost your keys and maybe even your wallet. But have you ever lost a hospital?
