Emily Nunn  told the Boston Globe that she decided to start her food newsletter because, well, see the post below. 

“When people ask me why I did it, I say that I couldn’t figure out what people wanted from me as a writer, so I decided to write about the things I wanted to read.”

Her newsletter is devoted to salad and her tuna fish edition won the attention of The Boston Globe food writer Sheryl Julian,

Growing up, I took a tuna sandwich on white bread to school for lunch every single day. I still love tuna salad even when it hasn’t been sitting in a brown paper bag for hours and soaked through the bread and the waxed paper it was wrapped in. I practically needed a spoon to eat those sandwiches. Today, the only thing better than having a stack of canned tuna on the pantry shelf is having a container of salad already made, waiting in the fridge.

Now you understand why I was thrilled when I encountered an entire treatise on the subject of canned tuna by longtime journalist Emily Nunn, who has been writing The Department of Salad newsletter since October 2020. 

The indignities of journalism job hunting

Read the thread. and keep writing!

I just got this letter RE a newspaper job I applied for. I worked for over a decade at the @NewYorker and 7 years at the Chicago tribune, where I won the EIC’s award for best writer of the year for my wide ranging features. My book is on a large number of best of lists. I am 57. pic.twitter.com/5OiX3zS2wW

— emily nunn (@EmilyRNunn) July 17, 2018

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Quality of care coverage 2015-2017

1. Automation and Anesthesia | HealthLeaders Media

   After years of research, debate, and Food and Drug Administration review, the federal agency will allow nonanesthesia professionals to use a device that administers sedation during colonoscopy and esophagogastroduodenoscopy procedures, provided that certain requirements are met.

   

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2. March 2015 After years of research, debate, and Food and Drug Administration review, the SEDASYS system is now available.
3. The device was withdrawn a year later.
4. Tinker Ready | HealthLeaders Media

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5. After all the others spoke, Orlando Health COO Jamal Hakim, MD, delivered this message:
   "Ours is a story of mission and passion, of preparedness and planning, of success and… a little bit of pride in being able to handle that which is really beyond preparation. Our question for you is: Are you prepared for the worst to show up on your doorstep unannounced?"
6. Orlando Hospital Workers Can't Forget | emergency medicine, trauma, strategy | HealthLeaders Media

   Six months after the Pulse nightclub shooting killed 49 and injured scores, clinicians who treated the dying and the wounded describe the roles they played that night, and the rules they broke.

   

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7. The message: Data derived from the non-medical drivers of a patient's health can improve quality of care and enrich the utility of so-called intelligent machines, such as IBM's Watson.
8. Data on Social Needs May Redefine Precision Healthcare

   The small crowd at Tuesday's " On the Front Lines of Healthcare" event in Boston included a patient activist, a state health systems analyst, and even a doctor who was in town for a gastroenterologist meeting. But the gathering, held in an airy space on 33 rd floor of a downtown high rise, was not a professional or academic meeting.

   

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9. Hospital ranking programs take that data to consumers, who are increasingly shopping around for health services. But when media reports challenge the analysis of the data, the question emerges: Are consumers losing confidence in hospital rankings?
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    Brian Kelly, the editor and chief content officer at US News, doesn't think so.
11. Why Hospital Rankings Are So Complicated

    Ranking hospitals means constant tweaks and occasional errors in the effort to get it right. The effort is still a work in progress, but transparency and access to better data would help move things along.

    

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12. Gabow: "You may wonder, after hearing that I spend 40 years at a healthcare institution, why I would pose a question like this: Can American healthcare deliver health? "she said.
    "It is precisely because I spent 40 years at a safety-net institution that took fabulous care of patients. I saw every day that our patient had barriers to well- being and health."
13. 'Right Care' Delivery Can't Wait for Congress

    The Lown Institute's annual conference began the day after the House of Representatives voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The Boston-based group is focused on "right care," a term that broadly refers to the delivery of appropriate care in a humane, costs-effective way.

    

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14. HLM: Why did you decide to write this book?
    Judge Zobel: I had seen enough doctors on the stand, not just in malpractice cases, but generally, to know that they could use a little help in being a witness.
15. Listen, Answer the Question, and Shut Up

    Hiller Zobel, LLB, a retired judge and co-author of an updated book on doctors and the law, discusses how physicians can best help themselves when medical malpractice is alleged.

    

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16. Andrew Donnelly, director of pharmacy services at UI, said that by working closely with clinical pharmacists and setting up a team devoted to address the problems, the system has saved $2.5 million.
    "You have to be as smart as you can in terms of using the really expensive medications," he said.
17. 7 Ways Hospitals Can Fight Drug Price Hikes and Shortages | prescription drugs, costs, pharma | HealthLeaders Media

    Working closely with clinical pharmacists, making evidence-based medication substitutions, and employing smarter dosing can curb costs without reducing quality.

    

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18. HLM: How did this story come about?
    Allen: Concurrent surgery is something that is well known within the hospital community and among surgeons. It’s something that doesn’t come as a great surprise, but many members of the general public had no idea prior to us publishing this story.
19. Concurrent Surgery Gets the Spotlight Treatment

    The debate over the safety of concurrent surgeries was ongoing when The Boston Globe's team of investigative reporters tapped into it, says the paper's Spotlight Team editor Scott Allen . The Globe's October 2015 series looked at complex orthopedic surgeries at Massachusetts General Hospital and beyond, raising questions about safety, clinical oversight, and informed consent.

    

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20. Zuckerman; We've had so many wars on cancer and we've had a lot of progress. But if you want to make meaningful progress, you don't [just] throw money at a problem for a year."
21. Cancer Moonshot Misses the Target | HealthLeaders Media

    Hospitals don't have much to gain from the moonshot, at least in the short run. There are lot of other pressing, fixable problems with cancer care that the Obama administration's effort won't address.

    

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The last time I saw Joni

Naxos, Greece 

Some Joni Mitchell songs are just embedded in my heart. I plan to listen to Blue over and over until I die and never get tired of it. There's a whole generation of us.

But, she says a lot of mean things in the new bio "Reckless Daughter."

I have this wish for Joni:

You really haven't changed.
It's just that now you're romanticising some pain that in your head
You've got tombs in your eyes, but the songs you punched are dreaming

Listen, they sing of love so sweet.

-- from "The Last Time I Saw Richard"

The return of the heath hen

The return of the heath hen? Stay tuned for a multimedia update. In the meantime:


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Heath hen memorial, Martha's Vineyard 

Blogger handles graphics, media better than Wordpress

One of the problems with Wordpress is that you have limited capacity to embed media and graphics. YouTube and Vimeo work. Storify seems to work sometimes.
The Value of Visualization from Column Five on Vimeo.

Love this app but wish it worked on Wordpress. This goes for all the great Knight lab apps -- timeline and Story map. The way to get around it is the screen shot and link. But, that doesn quite work for that.

It can also be a little easy to embed your Piktochart. Here's where a little HTML comes in handy. You can set a custom width in the Piktochart code. I set mine too wide at 1,000.

Here's what the code looks like. I'm going to change 1000 back to 600

<iframe frameborder="0" height="1266" scrolling="no" src="https://magic.piktochart.com/embed/3430150-tr-test" style="overflow-y: hidden;" width="1000"></iframe>



There are probably a couple of different ways to embed an Excel chart. Here's I saved it as a JPG and put it in. This will work fine on Wordpress, What's the problem with this chart? Goes in the wrong direction. Let's fix it in Excel.

 

I did this by going back into Excel and  sorting the dta column from lowest to higehc

Draglines at my heart: Goodbye to a feminist folks singer

Back in the second wave of the women's movement, we all listened to the The New Harmony Sisterhood Band. They told stories of cotton mill girls, strip mining and feminist icons like Sojourner Truth.  Yesterday, a member of the 1970s group was killed in a bike accident. Her music carrries on, thanks to The Smithsonian, which rereleased the album "And Ain't I a Woman?" in 2006.   She plays fiddle on the song "Draglines."

More on her recent work from WBUR

From the Globe:

Friends say Marcia Deihl was always the first person to think up a witty song that perfectly captured the moment, and to encourage the same lyrical invention in others with her “Bizarre Song Parties,” where the price of admission was a ditty of one’s own.

Deihl was a Cambridge activist who spent her life fighting — and singing — for what she believed in, and who had embarked upon retirement with joy that she could finally dedicate all her time to her art.

And she loved to ride her bicycle, a clunky old three-speed decorated with paper flowers and streamers. With her long hair streaming behind her, she cut a distinctive figure, one familiar to many Cambridge residents.

On Thursday, friends mourned the untimely death of the 65-year-old, who was killed Wednesday after being hit by a dump truck while riding her bike on Putnam Avenue.

“She was an icon of Cambridge life. She was a very colorful figure, beloved by the people who knew her,” said Pam Chamberlain, a longtime friend who described Deihl as “a riot” with a keen sense of irony and a gift for bonding with people. “It’s a great loss for the folk community and the feminist movement.”