Fifty More Curmudgeons

“Golly, Curmudge! Isn’t one Curmudgeon enough?”

“I hope there’s only one Kaizen Curmudgeon, because that’s my nom de plume. The world may be filled with curmudgeons (lower case ‘c’) or nasty old men. But, Jaded Julie, what I was referring to were the fifty more Kaizen Curmudgeon postings since October 29, 2009, when we celebrated the first hundred.”

“So we’ve had 150 postings on 150 ideas of things to write about. It’s too bad that most of the ideas weren’t very good.”

“Many thanks for your vote of confidence, Julie. Please remember that you were co-author. So what can we do for our readers to celebrate this sort-of anniversary?”

“It’s really hard to find a specific posting unless you know when it was posted. So why don’t we add to this note the Table of Contents for our most recent 50 postings? Then the reader can scan down the list, find a title of interest, and then click on its Date Posted to be linked to the posting.”

“Setting up all those links will be a lot of work, Julie. I trust that you will do that for me.”

“Of course, Curmudge. (I’d do most anything for the old codger.)”

Kaizen Curmudgeon Blog Title--Date Posted

101 Curmudgeons--10/29/09
Change Your Primary Care Mindset—the Physician 2--11/05/09
Change Your Primary Care Mindset—the Rest of the Team--11/12/09
The Medical Home Team Comes Together--11/19/09
It Takes More Than a Team--12/04/09
“I’m from Corporate, and I’m here to help you.”--12/10/09
Holiday Greetings from Curmudge and Jaded Julie--12/17/09
Volunteering: the Seniors’ Raison D’être--1/07/10
Curmudgeon’s Wastebasket--1/13/10
Father Clark’s Sequence--1/22/10
“Welcome to my (our) world.”--1/28/10
The First Step in New Health Care Construction: the Voice of the Patient--2/04/10
From Customer Ideas to Project Choices--2/11/10
Heart, Lung & Vascular Center: From Current State to Future State--2/18/10
Lean Lessons from Long Ago--2/25/10
Packrattery, Chaos and their Countermeasure, 5S--3/04/10
Kanban--3/11/10
What do you say after, “Lean is based on the Toyota Production System”?--3/18/10
A Culture of Elegance--3/25/10
Mistakes--4/01/10
Mistakes 2--4/08/10
Operas and Hospitals--4/15/10
Assisting Clinical Excellence (ACE) Awards--4/22/10
Hey patients, checklists are okay.--4/29/10
The Sensei is Concerned--5/06/10
Twice Blessed--5/13/10
Teamwork—It’s the People--5/20/10
Happy Third Birthday--5/28/10
The Guys in the Yellow Shirts--6/10/10
Judgment--6/18/10
AIDET Redux--7/01/10
Docs on a Treadmill--7/15/10
Mistakes 3--7/22/10
Amazing Devices--8/05/10
Amazing Devices 2--8/12/10
The World Health Congress--8/19/10
Medical Home Workflows--8/26/10
Amazing Devices 3--9/02/10
Amazing Devices 4--9/09/10
Evidence-Based Medicine—The Patient’s Perspective--9/23/10
Evidence-Based Medicine—The Patient’s Perspective 2--9/30/10
Evidence-Based Medicine—The Patient’s Perspective 3--10/14/10
Evidence-Based Medicine—The Patient’s Perspective 4--10/14/10
Evidence-Based Medicine—The Patient’s Perspective 5--10/21/10
The Robot--11/03/10
Superbugs--11/04/10
The Old Scout’s Funeral--11/18/10
The Evolution of Lean Education at Affinity--11/26/10
Why Lean?--12/02/10
The Evolution of Lean Education at Affinity 2--12/09/10

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