| In my office is
a bookcase loaded with volumes that address
every aspect of quality theory, leading clinical change,
quality-related statistical methods, basic human nature,
and a range of other topics. I collected
them across
more than 35 years. The best of
them have starred pages, notes in the margins,
underlined text, and the like. Late in my
career I started to pull my notes and key
quotations into Word documents.
That created searchable text to find key
ideas, and provided a standing reference for
quotes and citations. I wish that I
had started building these sorts of "book
e-notes" much earlier. I'm gradually
working my way through some of the old classics.
Note that they are structured indices for key
concepts and references. They don't
replace the books themselves. You'll need
to own those volumes, to get the essential
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| Books on
professional topics |
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Swensen & Shanafelt -
Mayo Clinic Strategies to Reduce
Burnout: 12 Actions to Create the Ideal
Workplace
-- evidence-based, deployable approaches to
leadership development and clinical workforce
engagement |
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Janis -
Groupthink
-- key
background information for effective teams,
dealing with how teams go wrong |
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Gardner -
The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We
Shouldn't ΜΆ and Put Ourselves in
Greater Danger --
very nice application of Kahneman's Thinking
Fast, Thinking Slow |
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Tavris & Aronson -
Mistakes Were Made (but
not by me):
Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs,
Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts |
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Pink - Drive: The
Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us |
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Patterson, Grenny,
McMillan, & Switzler -
Crucial Conversations:
Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High |
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| Books on
near death experiences (NDEs) |
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| Some years ago a
wealthy retired friend approached me. He
was supporting a local videographer, by funding
a documentary about near-death experiences
(NDEs). I had never heard of such things.
I learned that a number of professionals were
trying to apply legitimate scientific methods to
the topic. He wanted me to criticize their
work: Was it good science? How far
had the field advanced? I ended up reading
a number of leading authors on the topic, so
that I could respond. As expected, it was
a mixed bag including lots of personal anecdote,
plenty of wild speculation, but some defensible
structured observation. These are a few of
the better texts I encountered. It's a
fascinating subject that challenges some widely
accepted and dearly held, but so-far
unsubstantiated, beliefs within the medical
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Greyson -
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death
Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond
-- Greyson is one of the most credible
researchers in the field; a psychiatrist and a
self-proclaimed atheist |
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Moody -
Proof of Life after Life: 7 Reasons to Believe
There Is an Afterlife
-- Moody's
Life After Life
(1975) kicked off
popular interest in NDEs. A psychiatrist w
a PhD in philosophy, he admits that NDE accounts
are anecdotal. Here he reviews 7
areas where others, beyond the 'NDE experiencer'
alone, have experiences. He argues that
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International Assoc for Near-Death
Studies (IANDS) Fact Sheet on NDEs |
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van Lommel -
Consciousness Beyond Life:
The Science of Near-Death Experience
-- van Lommel authored the
first article
empirically assessing NDEs in a major medical
journal. Here, he reviews that study,
subsequent studies, a critical
appraisal of alternative sources of the NDE
experience, and (finally) his own speculations |
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Henderson -
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and
Social Class --
introduces the idea of "luxury beliefs' |
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