Normally, a plane moves along three rotational axes. “Inertia coupling” takes place when the plane inadvertently moves on two ...

A commentary by a retired professor of medicine and a director of B.C. Health Care Matters. Provision of safe births and adequate primary care are widely accepted minimum standards in most developed ...

A recent front-page article in the New York Times conveyed grim news about patient safety. The first large-scale study of hospital safety in a decade concluded that care has not gotten significantly ...

The oblivious response from Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Paul Goldsmith on 1 News last night to calls from the Aotearoa Students’ Alliance to improve students’ welfare is yet ...

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It’s harder to stop something after you’ve started it because whatever activity you’ve engaged in now has momentum going for it. Conversely, it’s harder to start something before you make the ...

In a recent column I gave color coding ban on cars as an example of how inertia prevents us from changing a rule that has outlived its usefulness. I write hoping that someone somewhere who has the ...