This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has three segments. Here are bits of each of them: Wrong, wrong, wrong — The Journal of Patient Safety has a new report called “Insurance claims for wrong-side, wrong-organ, wrong-procedure, or wrong-person surgical errors: A retrospective study for 10 years“. Something is a little off even with […]
This lovely drawing, below, is part of Syeda J.Z. Mansur‘s 2008 US patent application (#12/072,970) for a possibly-innovative “Portable sinus and throat cleansing system and method“. The inventor is pictured here, right. BONUS: The water matters, especially in parts of Louisiana. BONUS TO THE BONUS (unrelated, except that it related to Louisiana): Water and oil, mixed like […]
