Mr. Gawande starts his literature on washing hands. He introduces two friends a microbiologist and an infectious disease specialist. Both work hard and diligently against the spread of diseases just like Semmelweis who is mentioned in the chapter. Something I learned, that not many realize, is that each year two million people acquire an infection while they are in the hospital. Mainly because the clinicians only wash their hands one-third to one-half as many times as they should. Semmelweis, mentioned earlier, concluded in 1847 that doctors themselves were to blame for childbed fever, which was the leading cause of maternal death in childbirth. The best solutions are apparently the sanitizing gels that have only recently caught on in the U.S. Then there was an initiative to make the sanitizing easier for all. The engineer Perreiah came up with solutions that gave the staff more time which was revolutionary in itself but the format worked only under his supervision. After he left it all went down the drain, so, Lloyd a surgeon who had helped Perreiah decided to do more research and was excited when he encountered the positive deviance idea, the idea of building on people’s capabilities instead of trying to change them. The idea worked and even got funding for ten more hospitals across the country. At the end of the chapter Dr.Gawande ponders upon the idea of how many he has infected because of his lack of cleansing.…
From the first chapter, Sue Monk Kidd makes it clear that she’s writing a novel about the relationships between different kinds of women. Because the protagonist of her book is a young teenager who’s lost her mother, and the majority of the other female characters are adult women, the most important kind of woman-to-woman relationship for the novel is that between the mother and the daughter. Lily travels to Tiburon, South Carolina, in search of information about her dead mother, Deborah, and she also admits to be looking for a maternal figure—a metaphorical mother—to replace Deborah. How does Kidd depict the mother-daughter relationship, and what are the strengths and weaknesses of this relationship?…
Anglican authorities undertook a systematic campaign to eliminate Puritan influence within the Church of England.…
1. Why was the United States Navy able to have success in the fight for Canada?…
Plan called for a Grand Council representing all the colonial assemblies, with a crown-appointed president general as its executive officer.…
1) Which of the following must a firm in a market economy do today to succeed?…
a. With the stern response of the British to American entreaties, Congress finally asked a committee headed by Thomas ___________ to draft a Declaration of Independence. What was the main rationale for independence advanced in the Declaration?…
In The Jungle , Upton Sinclair shows The corruption of the Industrial Age through his depiction of working conditions, wages, and living conditions.…
In the past two centuries, there has been a dramatic decline in the number of farmers worldwide.…
State both sides of the debate over whether voter turnout has declined over the past century, and describe those factors that tend to hold down voter turnout in the United States.…
1. A social category of people who share a common culture, language, national background or religion is referred to as a(n) _____. A. minority group B. dominant group C. racial group D. ethnic group…
Variables and their attributes (or values) are at the heart of examining relationships in the…
The best way for strategic managers and business leaders to do their jobs in a more efficient manner is by reading cases. These cases simulate real world experiences that these leaders will have to inevitably face one day. Case Analysis covers complex strategic management concepts – such as environmental analysis, process of decision making, and implementing strategic actions—by putting managers in middle of a scenario and challenging them to figure out what to do. Analyzing these cases will give the managers the ability to evaluate business situations critically. Chapter 13 shows how these three skills – differentiate, speculate and integrate - will be key to successfully analyzing the cases presented.…
A year Down Yonder is about a girl named Mary Alice who goes to live with her Grandma in a small town with only her cat Bootsie and her potable radio that she says is her last touch with the world.…
For this assignment, I chose to review chapter 21 from the Global Politics handbook, written by Naeem Inayatullah. The chapter talks about the question: Why do some know what’s good for others?…