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in improv. It enables rapid cognition. Let me give you a very simple example of this. Picture, in your mi ...
actual visual memory was displaced. Your thinking was bumped from the right to the left hemisphere. When y ...
arrival, the attending doctor looks at the child and gasps, “This child is my son!” Who is the doctor? This ...
fewer problems than those who weren’t. In short, when you write down your thoughts, your chances ...
interview with a fire department commander in Cleveland as part of a project to get professionals to t ...
intelligent and thoughtful man, and he wasn’t about to accept that as an answer. Instead, for the next two h ...
door of his unconscious. This is a beautiful example of thin- slicing in action. The fireman’s internal co ...
attacked, and all of a sudden what Blue Team thought was a routine “kitchen fire” was something they co ...
supposed to allow us to see all, know all,” Major General Dean Cash, one of the senior JFCOM officials ...
Cook County’s big experiment began in 1996, a year after a remarkable man named Brendan Reilly came to ...
prisoners shackled to the beds. The patients would bring in TVs and radios, and they would be blaring, ...
The list of problems Reilly faced was endless. But the Emergency Department (the ED) seemed to cry out for ...
heart attacks was front and center. A significant number of those people filing into the ED — on average, a ...
sticker, which “reads” the electrical activity of his heart and prints out the pattern on a sheet of pink ...
The problem with that estimate, though, is that it isn’t very accurate. One of the things Reilly did early ...
Somewhere between 2 and 8 percent of the time in American hospitals, a patient having a genuine heart attack ...
having a heart attack actually have a heart attack. This, then, was Reilly’s problem. He wasn’t back ...
observation unit, where they could put a patient for half a day or so under the most basic care. “We ...
encounter. “He’s always exploring different topics, whether it’s philosophy or Scottish poetry or the history of ...
principles the group was using might be helpful in deciding whether someone was suffering a heart attack. So he ...
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