Mac’s Safety Space: Teddy Roosevelt would likely not cotton to these monkeyshines
Hospital Safety Insider, June 30, 2016
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Our former president, one Theodore Roosevelt (when are Simon and Alvin going to run for office? I think their time is nigh...) is famous for a number of things, including the introduction of "bully" as a positive adjective (if you want to check out the manuscript that started it all, you can find it here). Unfortunately, the verb bully is very much a presence in today's society (reaching near pandemic proportions in the various social media forums), including the healthcare industry. Now, I have certainly kvetched once or twice about the lack/loss of civility in general and our good friends in Chicago have taken up the gauntlet, and I think we can all agree: "bullying has no place in healthcare."
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