>>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 8:17 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > How would you handle a person that scrutinizes blood for a living and > mistakes a diagnosis ?
I'm sure it happens multiple times a day, all over the country. I doubt very much they get fired for the first error. -snip- > There > are degrees of error of course some are who cares to a possible > company going bankrupt there are in the last case MANY people being > out of work (possibly 1000's or more) would you not fire the person? If it were their first error, probably not. -snip- > That is why an operator, IMO must go > through several years of training so they CAN'T make stupid mistakes. Ah, you're one of those people that believe humans can be trained into not making mistakes. Dr. Deming would be shaking his head in sadness over that, if he were still alive. It is, at best, a very misguided notion. -snip- > Being an operator is a lot like being an anethesiologist the skill to > know how much sleeping gas to administer so the patient does not > awake or die. The surgeon is one part (major) of the operation an > operator is a helper. That is what an operator is a helper. I guess you've never heard of death by "medical misadventure." That also happens nearly every day. Not too many of them get fired either, for their first mistake. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
