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	<description>The 9 to 5 Life of an International Playboy</description>
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		<title>Diabetes Design Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have a good design idea for a product to help manage diabetes?  Want some help (i.e., prize money, access to design experts, introductions to venture funders, etc.) with turning your idea into a real product?
If so, enter the 2010 DiabetesMine™ Design Challenge before April 30, 2010.
Last year&#8217;s grand prize winner was a design to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Debate is Bad for Your Mental Health?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I would have to say that I have a generally cheery, optimistic, &#8220;can do&#8221; disposition that is somewhat tempered by my belief that we have to persevere through adversity brought on by those who subscribe to a variety of reactionary attitudes.  (My endearing, sarcastic cynicism stems &#8212; most likely &#8212; from the recognition that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Own Questions about Health Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Updated on 5 March 2010 at 8:30AM: I added a few more questions that were written down at the office.
It seems like I have a lot of answers about healthcare, but I really don&#8217;t.  However, I do have some anecdotes and a few facts. And I have done some research  when prompted or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What to Ask Yourself about Healthcare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are three questions I ask whenever I look at potential healthcare changes:

How will it improve patient health outcomes?
How will it contain or reduce the cost of healthcare?
How will it increase access to healthcare for all Americans?

The first question focuses on the basic purpose of medicine: making or keeping us healthy.  In general, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modeling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanna model.

Modeling Sucks &#8211; Handsome Boy &#8230;
No, not that kind of modeling.  And I don&#8217;t want one of those other kinds of models, either.  (Although it&#8217;s certainly nice to watch Heidi Klum every week on Project Runway.)

I want to develop a model that helps me figure out how to balance exercise, insulin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Keystone Initiative: A Checklist Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Atul Gawande&#8217;s The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, p. 44:
In December 2006, the Keystone Initiative [which used checklists in the ICU and integrated executives to help remove roadblocks] published its findings in a landmark article in the New England Journal of Medicine.  Within the first three months of the project, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2010/02/the-keystone-initiative-a-checklist-success/</link>
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		<title>WTF Is It Going to Take?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update from the day after: Just so that everyone knows, I&#8217;m not singling out any specific people or any particular party.  I&#8217;m only angry at Congress and the pundits who are more concerned with scoring political points than with improving an obviously broken, expensive system.  It&#8217;s true that I was angry when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random Bits of Awesome &#8211; February 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear readers, it&#8217;s time for a roundup of topics that just aren&#8217;t big enough for their own posts.  I&#8217;m just going to jumble them all together.  Enjoy!
It&#8217;s Olympics time.  Woo!  I don&#8217;t understand people who profess not to love the games.  You may not like every event &#8212; bobsled, ice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2010/02/random-bits-of-awesome-february-2010/</link>
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		<title>Idea of the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t already subscribe to the New York Times&#8216; Idea of the Day weblog, you should.
(If I weren&#8217;t at work with a lot to do, I&#8217;d write about how it aggregates some of the best articles in print from the web concerning culture and the life of the mind.  I&#8217;d say something about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/2010/02/idea-of-the-day/</link>
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		<title>Checklists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We use checklists a lot at work.  They help us reduce waste and ensure a high quality product.  If we&#8217;ve run into a problem before, we&#8217;re likely to run into it again, so we might as well go down the checklist of &#8220;Did you think about this?&#8221; and &#8220;Did you do that?&#8221; items [...]]]></description>
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