Improving on our Pettee difficulties

Improving our aim.

Bioethicists appearing in the media have been accused of "shooting from the hip" (Rachels, 1991). The criticism is sometimes justified. We identify some reasons our interactions with the press can have bad results and suggest remedies. In particular we describe a target (fostering better public dialogue), obstacles to hitting the target (such as intrinsic and accidental defects in our knowledge...

Improving Our Bodies, Our Meals, and Our Gadgets

Improving our patients' experience: ideas for change

addition to keeping an eye on the quality of our clinical services, making small changes in how we deliver services can have a big impact on how patients feel about their experience – which will in turn motivate them and others to come for the eye care they need. Here are a few things to you may be able to try. Look after your staff Patients want us to listen to them. They want to be treated wi...

Improving Our Conceptualization and Measurement of Crime

Although the Judiciary Act of 1789 (ch. 20, § 35, 1 Stat. 73, 92–93) created the position of the attorney general, it would be more than 80 years before the Department of Justice was established. After theCivilWar, a group ofCongressmen led an effort to address Reconstruction by passing legislation creating a Department of Justice. Once Ulysses Grant was president, the executive branch joined C...

Improving our understanding of posttraumatic trajectories.