read after martha by paul laity
there hadn't been someone with overall responsibility for her care
there is nothing to blame here apart from the fates
passed the buck to the next day's doctor
this was an eminently survivable injury
an institution suffering a nervous breakdown
had written something about the ways in which her practice should improve, and completed an e-module on sepsis
he had recently attended several conferences and given a 'state of the art lecture' in amsterdam. since martha's death, he had been receiving plaudits and enjoying research success. another professor went so far as to say in a statement that any 'adverse findings' against the consultant would have a 'significant impact on the evolution of liver medicine'
with complete shame for our profession
boilerplate regrets
read "a suggestion of a fundamental nature": imagining a legal education of solely electives taught as discussions by christophe g. courchesne
in favor of oval wooden tables, uniformly smaller classes of about twelve students
most large doctrinal classes now lack the power to do what socrates himself suggested was the project of education
student-centered discussion the dominant pedagogy
an academic semester-long performance
schools could be profoundly better places
the questionable wisdom of several years of largely passive memorization
[a] professional faculty that has lost interest in most of the work of its alumni has also lost interest in its students
the introduction of a de-centered and collaborative pedagogy built on a simple piece of furniture - an oval table seating thirteen
professors who have seldom, if ever, experienced a genuinely participatory small-group discussion
the miracle of structured discussion
a training in the responsibilities of the self that resist the contemporary tendencies towards nihilism and authoritarianism alike
for effective discussion should be no more than thirteen and no less than nine
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