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Thanks for visiting Plain Brown Wrapper! The blogging fun has moved to Adventures in Improving Access . See you there!

My HQC blog has moved to Blogger to join Plain Brown Wrapper. The Sask. budget is coming down in a few weeks, and I'm already worried a...

Hi! Long time, no see. Thanks to Mark Wahba's keen eye for this one: Bright yellow "Sharps" containers are ubiquitous in healt...

Thanks for coming to my presentation of BOMB! How a (failed) career in standup comedy made me a better surgeon. I look forward to receiving ...

Well, almost. The ever-topical TV show, ER , featured surgical checklists in a recent episode . If that's what it takes to get the mom...

Last week, I noticed someone had nailed a green doodad onto the door of each operating room. Any guesses what it's for? I suppose this i...

Want to know what patient-centred/patient-directed care could look like? Read "On being a ' Difficult' Patient " by Miche...