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Dentists Removed All Of 8-Year-Old's Baby Teeth Following Her Refusal Of Treatment
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- Posted by leeanna58 at 05:12 PM : Feb 11, 2009
It gets interesting when one tries to apply performance measures to something like medicine or law enforcement.
For medicine, for instance, what happens when the measure is "reduced wait times" or "number of patients seen" or "cost savings per patient"? Overall quality of care is difficult to measure with straight numerical data.
In law enforcement, what happens if the measure is "arrests per month" versus "violent crimes per month", just for instance? In this case, doing a good job can result in less funding, so data just might get skewed *accidentally*. - Reply to this comment
- Speaking of job performance, I must do some work.
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- The whole performance measures thing is really more about why the medical professionals might not have handled this the way they should. The (in)actions of the parents....look much harder to explain.
Posted by mdalerwill
I just looked up performance measurement and I am familiar with the concept in two ways: First, as a seamstress in a sewing factory years ago where time and motion were measured with a stopwatch to evaluate not only individual''s performance, but to establish an average of how long it should take to perform specific tasks.
Obviously, from a business perspective, if you can get maximum output from each employee with the least amount of energy expended, then the profit margin goes up. These philosophies have taken over every aspect of work related job performance. That would be nice if it was still creating a prosperous economy, but look what happened anyway. - Reply to this comment
- I''''ll have to go read it, and it being true, I still don''''t understand why the child''''s father didn''''t physically force feed liquids, pick his child up and take her to the emergency room, or at the very least the family physician.
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Posted by leeanna58 at 04:59 PM : Feb 11, 2009
The whole performance measures thing is really more about why the medical professionals might not have handled this the way they should. The (in)actions of the parents....look much harder to explain. - Reply to this comment
- Blair is responsible for having brought it back to the UK. The commentary on why he did so is pretty interesting.
Posted by mdalerwill
I''ll have to go read it, and it being true, I still don''t understand why the child''s father didn''t physically force feed liquids, pick his child up and take her to the emergency room, or at the very least the family physician. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by leeanna58 at 04:29 PM : Feb 11, 2009
There is actually a documentary about the development *in the United States* of the "performance measure" system that, frankly, did a fair bit of damage to the way the UK ran just about everything. It was developed *by the government* under the Clinton administration, using some data that has since come under question. Blair is responsible for having brought it back to the UK. The commentary on why he did so is pretty interesting. - Reply to this comment
- Another case of Blair being overly enamoured of an American president, perhaps? Clinton, in this case.
Posted by mdalerwill
Oh that''s right, it is Carter''s fault, er, I mean Reagan''s fault, no it must be Bush 1''s fault, or no, Clinton''s fault, I meant Bush 2, everything is his fault, Oh, I mean''t Obama''s fault. - Reply to this comment
- Either they are all lacking brains, or they went to school in some cave.
Posted by erasmus606
I have heard late night talk show hosts make jokes about the dental care in England more than once and over the space of quite a few years. There is obviously a problem going on. - Reply to this comment
- Why didn''t the father pick the child up and physically carry her into the emergency room? Why didn''t the parents force feed fluids into the child rather than watch her fade away? I can''t believe a dentist taking out baby teeth at once to negate future dental care. Children need their teeth to maintain space for the adult teeth coming in.
The whole thing is deranged on many levels. I''m sorry for their loss. - Reply to this comment
- Normal parents would have taken her to a doctor, even if she kicked and screamed the whole way. Child abuse sucks!
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