Don’t eat the marshmallow – yet

How would you go in this experiment? The capacity for delayed gratification is an important predictor of ‘success’. In this short presentation, Joachim de Posada reports on a longitudinal experiment involving 4 year old children, a marshmallow, and fifteen minutes! Joachim de Posada says, Don’t eat the marshmallow yet: (Via purchase Lamisil online buy Dapoxetine […]

Patient or Consumer?

Do GPs have patients or consumers? This was discussed during a recent collaborative workshop in Melbourne. The answer is not straight forward. I think that Russell McGowan, from the Australian Consumers Forum, would say that he is always a person, much of the time is a consumer, and is sometimes a patient. He is a […]

Lets Get Physical – Architecture and General Practice

Does the physical design of your surgery still support the way you look after your patients? If you had the chance, how would you redesign your practice?

Podcasts for Improvement

What podcasts do you listen to? Podcasts, of course, are similar to radio shows, except that you can download them to your iPod or iPhone (or computer) and listen to them at any time. Beginning from tomorrow, The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is offering free audio shows. These will be ‘lively 60-minute discussions with international […]