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.
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Chicago’s Oldest Hospital to Close. Provides Lesson On Not Opening Another One.
Back in October, 2020, I wrote, in a post called City Loses Hospitals Like We Lose Our Keys…
What Do You Call A Hospital With Irrelevant ORs Other Than “Bankrupt”? – Podcast
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.
More On What Do You Call a Hospital with Irrelevant ORs Other Than “Bankrupt”?
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?
City Loses Hospitals Like We Lose Our Keys
Chances are, you’ve lost your keys and maybe even your wallet. But have you ever lost a hospital?
Yes, You Can Build a Health System Without a Hospital – Podcast
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.
Yes, You Can Build a Health System Without a Hospital
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.
Hospital Becomes Hole in Ground. ASC Takes up the Slack.
In what might seem to some like ancient history and to others as a clarion call, in June 2010, New York City’s approximately 400 bed, 160 year old St. Vincent hospital, the last Roman Catholic general hospital in the city, closed its doors for the last time. In late 2017, a competing non-profit opened the…






