Mac’s Safety Space: Hortle didn’t hear a portal (with apologies to one T. Geisel)
Hospital Safety Insider, September 29, 2016
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As I get a little longer in the tooth, I find that I need to create reminders for myself of subjects to cover during our weekly visits. Typically, I will capture an idea as a draft email and return to it as time permits. At any rate, as you are very much aware, there's been a lot of material in recent weeks that have precluded the need to dig into my archives, but in the interest of keeping my draft emails at a manageable level, as well as making sure that I cover all the discussion points that I wanted to share, over the next little bit (unless something breaks big or bad in the compliance world) I'm going to set the wayback machine for stun and run a few timeless classics (at least I think they're timeless-please feel free to disagree). Let's hark back to July to revisit a concept that occupies a lot of my waking time: stewardship and accountability for the management of the physical environment.
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