Dec

23

Random Notes

December 23, 2011 | 6 Comments

Competition
It’s a rare Emergency Department that does not advertise some kind of thirty-minute-or-less guarantee and many even have electronic billboards flashing their current wait times into the night like a bug light to attract the casual seeker of late night medical care.   Because we have not yet taken complete leave of our senses the [...]

Dec

1

The McDonald’s Paradox

December 1, 2011 | 5 Comments

Left Without Being Fed
Consider a typical fast food restaurant.  On any given day they are staffed to quickly and efficiently handle a certain number of customers and to this end do their employees, many working at the first job in their life, toil mightily.    It’s hard work.  I’ve done it.
Suppose for some reason; rock [...]