Included below are three videos of conversations with my father, Heero Hacquebord, who is a world expert in quality improvement, systems thinking, and statistical control in business. We will be discussing the overall quality in hospitals and how to improve a hospital’s quality. He was a long-term mentee of the late Dr. W. Edwards Deming. I respect him immensely and have much to learn from him still.
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A fall on an outstretched hand often seems to end with nothing worse than a sore wrist. When the pain sits on the thumb side of the wrist and does not fade, though, the cause may be a scaphoid fracture. The scaphoid is the most commonly broken of the small carpal bones in the wrist,…
Carpal tunnel syndrome is well known. Ulnar tunnel syndrome is not, even though it affects the same hand and often produces symptoms that patients and clinicians alike mistake for carpal tunnel. Both involve a nerve compressed inside a narrow passage at the wrist, and both cause numbness and weakness in the hand. The difference comes…
Losing part of a hand changes how a person does almost everything, from buttoning a shirt to holding a phone. A partial hand prosthesis can restore a great deal of that function, but the right device depends on which parts of the hand remain, how much control the residual limb has, and what the patient…