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| Dec 21, 2021 | » | We The Consumers
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Product Differentiation and Price DiscriminationProduct differentiation seeks to distinguish a product from a competing product to make it more attractive to a specific target market. Price discrimination occurs when the same goods/services are sold at different prices from the same company. |
| Jan 1, 1976 | » | Toward a Theory of Medical Fallibility
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Norms for Scientific Activity and the Sources of Error“Science” is taken to mean “Natural Science”. Internal norms derive from a cognitive pursuit of science. They are:
External norms govern motives for participating in and using the results of scientific activity, e.g. ... |
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00. Prologue; 01. A Purposeful Life; Bad Blood [John Carreyrou]; 02. The Gluebot; 03. Apple Envy; 04. Goodbye East Paly; 05. The Childhood Neighbor; 06. Sunny; 07. Dr. J; 08. The miniLab; 09. The Wellness Play; 10. Who Is LTC Shoemaker?; 11. Lighting a Fuisz; 12. Ian Gibbons; 13. Chiat\Day; 14. Going Live; 15. Unicorn; 16. The Grandson; 17. Fame; 18. The Hippocratic Oath; 19. The Tip; 20. The Ambush; 21. Trade Secrets; 22. La Mattanza; 23. Damage Control; 24. The Empress Has No Clothes; Epilogue; COVID-19; Health Ethics; Is Dentistry a Science? [The Atlantic]; Monopolistic Tendencies in the Prescription Glasses Industry; On DNA Testing; IBM Watson's Health Saga; U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh Balwani [WSJ]; How Dentists Rip Us Off [William Ecenbarger]; Toward a Theory of Medical Fallibility; |
Medical care is like the opposite of moving fast and breaking things. If it’s so taboo to admit error, then that could make errors more common because fewer people are learning from past errors.