this week i

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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