tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6835035378240701634.post4706490328405026716..comments2023-04-27T05:26:50.132-07:00Comments on Slow Down: People Breathing: Dear Dr. Michael KarpfJenellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11972550923160477403noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6835035378240701634.post-75464876440456210832013-08-07T05:45:03.756-07:002013-08-07T05:45:03.756-07:00You're right, UK should report the data even i...You're right, UK should report the data even if it's raw. Some oversight agency will make sense of it. Karpf's right, very few parents will understand what the data means prior to living through the experience. Most still won't be able to put aggregate mortality data in proper context even after going through it. <br /><br />Where you're wrong -- though understandably; UK is after all a public university teaching hospital -- is calling Karpf an educator. Karpf isn't an educator. He's a business administrator with an MD. He's not a clinician. He's being doing the business side arguably ever since he quit teaching, probably at Pittsburgh and definitely at UCLA and UK. At a minimum, 20 years. While his MD and residency is likely helpful in his everyday duties, his decades-old clinical background in oncology has done little if anything to promote his profession of building out hospital systems. I'd argue a BSN could probably pull off the same thing; it's about a basic education in hospital medical care, not about being a physician.<br /><br />Of note, however, it's my experience that people -- anyone, but especially technical professionals -- won't try to explain something because, they say, their audience won't get it, they don't get it themselves. Human beings are enormously self-centered creatures. We tend to believe everyone else is just like us. It's in our nature to assume if we get it, so does everyone else. If Karpf understood the UK hospital department data, he'd most likely reel it off like everyone should plant get it like he plain gets it. He might bang his head against a wall in frustration when most laymen don't get it, but he'd try again and again to make them get it.<br /><br />So I don't think Karpf understands much better what that department's data means in terms of real world outcomes any more than the parents he claims can't understand it. An MD should teach an individual how to perform certain clinical duties to an acceptable standard. But an MD does not confer the ability to evaluate complex systems that just so happen to have something to do with medicine.<br /><br />Karpf may indeed be covering up for something. But U doubt he knows the details of what he's covering up for.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6835035378240701634.post-77434271669067995972013-08-06T15:55:11.126-07:002013-08-06T15:55:11.126-07:00Amen, heart-sister!Amen, heart-sister!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6835035378240701634.post-84564983878600308832013-08-05T06:33:20.974-07:002013-08-05T06:33:20.974-07:00Perfect. I love everything you just wrote!Perfect. I love everything you just wrote!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15902768127885932713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6835035378240701634.post-44783043263022699622013-08-04T10:59:41.780-07:002013-08-04T10:59:41.780-07:00well put!
well put! <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6835035378240701634.post-66252002202419579492013-08-04T10:39:59.577-07:002013-08-04T10:39:59.577-07:00thank you for this!! It means so much to me to hav...thank you for this!! It means so much to me to have so many people backing our families through this. tabithahttp://www.facebook.com/tabitharaineynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6835035378240701634.post-86493452979987552762013-08-04T09:57:36.691-07:002013-08-04T09:57:36.691-07:00Perfectly said. Perfectly said. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com