By Cathryn Domrose When staff nurses at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center recently attended a patient-safety class devoted to infection control, they listened to a mother whose child acquired a surgery-site staph infection...

I’ve been thinking about birthing, bicycling, and bar coding. This week, my youngest of five (whom I delivered at home twenty-five July’s ago) gave birth to her first, also at home. Relax. Both were low-risk with certified midwives present and...

I’ve been thinking about the Dodgers, George Carlin, Nurse Jackie and drugs—oh yeah, and near misses. It’s Monday about to turn Tuesday. Our return flight to Seattle has been weather-delayed after our weekend in So Cal. On Saturday, we nearly...

I’ve been thinking about the need for traveling mercies on the patient-safety technology highway. It’s Memorial Day weekend, and the Washington jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing is $260 million. Which reminds me of the guy who prayed all his life...

I’ve been twittering and pondering how we could share The unSUMMIT for Bedside Barcoding with friends who can’t make it to Atlanta May 5-7. And I found a way. Three of my favorite birds on the wire will be sending tweets from The unSUMMIT that you...

I’ve been thinking about checklists. My kids and their kids love Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad stories. So do I. My favorite is A List. Still in bed, Toad decides to make a list so he can remember all the things he must do in the day before him....

I’ve been thinking about the impact of mobile computing on fertility, frugality, mortality, and posterity. Recently, I posted a picture of my sixth grandchild on Facebook. A buddy in California wrote something on my wall about knowing me when I was...

I’ve been thinking about product ID, apples, priests, and rabbis. Don’t you hate it when you snag an apple from the fruit bowl and bite into a sticker? I find it even more annoying if stickers are missing from apples when I get to the self-checkout...

I’ve been thinking about automated dispensing machines, traffic cameras, Michelangelo, and Atlanta in May. On a recent NPR program, experts discussed how installing cameras at intersections increases citations while decreasing violations. Initially,...