A Black History Month shoutout to white men working to recognize and correct the stories – and systems – that perpetuate racism, including those that have benefited them.
#readlater #stillreading
https://anildash.com/2023/01/16/a-fediverse-search/
https://me.dm/@anildash/109702394084557850
With a reference to discussion and research into quote tweets (QTs)
If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.
(Y’all see my sarcasm, right?)
«The consequences of snitch testimony can be catastrophic. Of the 367 DNA exonerations in the United States to date, jailhouse informants played a role in nearly one in five of the underlying wrongful convictions. A seminal 2004 study conducted by Northwestern Law School’s Center on Wrongful Convictions found that testimony from jailhouse snitches and other criminal informants was the leading cause of wrongful convictions in capital cases. Today nearly a quarter of death-row exonerations — 22% — stem from cases in which prosecutors relied on a jailhouse informant.»
I’m actually still reading this one.
https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/uss-fitzgerald-destroyer-crash-crystal/
Oh man, I’m gonna have to read this later.
https://twitter.com/Cshearer41/status/1081573263623548929?s=17
Catriona Shearer (@Cshearer41) Tweeted:
What’s the area of the rectangle? https://t.co/ahlRn83qmW
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/us/politics/texas-beto-orourke-evangelicals-women.html
I don’t think Dems should write off white Evangelical women so soon. Consider the arc of Beth Moore.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/beth-moore-bible-study/568288/
«To Democrats nationwide, who have largely written off white evangelical voters, it also sends a signal — not just for the midterms but also for the 2020 presidential campaign — that there are female, religious voters who are open to some of their party’s candidates.
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“How does my vote represent the little girl that I used to be?” she said. “The Republicans used to be the party of family, and morals and values, and now they are not.”
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Unlike many other Democratic candidates ahead of the midterm election, Mr. O’Rourke is doing strategic, if limited, outreach to white evangelicals, especially women. On his way to his concert with Willie Nelson in Austin recently, he recorded a podcast segment with Jen Hatmaker, a Christian author whose prominent show “For the Love” is followed by tens of thousands of evangelical women. The episode is scheduled to air Thursday.
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These evangelical women may seem invisible, Ms. Hatmaker said, but they dot the state, and reflect a broader dissatisfaction among some Christian conservatives that their faith has been politicized for what they see as an agenda that opposes what Jesus represents.
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Beth Moore, an influential author and Christian teacher based in Houston, signed a letter urging Congress and Mr. Trump to protect Dreamers and reunite immigrant families. After the Senate confirmed Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, she tweeted to her nearly a million followers to not lose heart. [Ha! I started this post before I got to this point in the article. — John L.]»
Source: https://undark.org/article/medical-records-fragmentation-health-care/
«There was the oncologist who needed the biopsy results for one of her new cancer patients. The biopsies had been done long ago, at another hospital, and the patient couldn’t remember who had done them or what they showed. So the oncologist cold-called all the physicians in the department; when none of them knew the patient, she asked for the names of all the recently retired doctors and called them, too, until she got what she needed.
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More recent studies suggested this number was too low, raising it to more than 400,000 deaths per year. If they were a disease, medical errors would now rank as the third leading cause of death in the United States, a 2016 analysis published in The BMJ found, right behind heart disease and cancer.
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The Joint Commission, a large accreditor of health-care organizations with a focus on patient safety, studied transitions of care and concluded that they are largely ineffective, leading to adverse events, hospital readmissions, and soaring costs.
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The advice usually amounts to this: When the system fails you, be more careful. Work harder.
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We can cold-call retired physicians from distant hospitals and we can print rhythm strips to stuff in wallets. Something relevant will eventually go missing. Maybe not this time, and maybe not the next. But as an aggregate, this can’t be counted on as a backbone system of safety. It’s also a waste of resources to rewrite a new chart every time a patient enters a new building. I’ve seen doctors go above and beyond in every possible way and yet I’ve seen how hard it is to always get it right. It’s as engineer W. Edwards Deming said: “A bad system will beat a good person every time.”»
Meta: Holy cow, I thought I was posting a link from The Atlantic, but somehow it got transmogrified into this Undark link. Looks like the same article, so… how did this happen?
Here, Read This 