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...crew aficionados lounged on plastic folding chairs, sipping Hefeweizen Unfiltered Wheat Beer out of plastic cups as shells smoothly zipped by. The North Yarmouth Academy tent proudly displayed an assortment of M&M’s and Tootsie Roll Pops amid a seasonal arrangement of pumpkins. Its neighbor, Berwick Academy, had a less impressive spread: a basket of apples and unopened jugs of apple cider kept lonely company with a welcome book yet to be signed by a single alum. But the top-tier tent village was about much more than candy and pretentious beer. Alec P. Smith, who called...
...wife Lady Windermere (Rebecca M. Harrington ’08, who is also a Crimson editor) explaining her morals to a well-spoken suitor, played by Jason M. Lazarcheck ’08. Within minutes, however, her self-described Puritanism is challenged when her friend, the bombastic Duchess of Berwick, played by Jen C. Sullivan ’09, tells her about what all of the upper crust has been discussing for months: the large sums of money that Lord Windermere (Brian B. C. Polk ’09) has been paying to Mrs. Erlynne (Allison B. Kline...
...Donald Berwick is a Massachusetts pediatrician and president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement...
...drug should be started immediately, that "time is of the essence." That was on a Thursday morning at 10 a.m. The first dose was given 60 hours later, on Saturday night at 10 p.m. "Nothing I could do, nothing I did, nothing I could think of made any difference," Berwick said in a speech to colleagues. "It nearly drove me mad." One medication was discontinued by a physician's order on the first day of admission and yet was brought by a nurse every single evening for 14 days straight. "No day passed--not one--without a medication error," Berwick...
After he publicized his experiences, Berwick was besieged by other doctors saying, "If you think that's terrifying, wait until you hear my story." One distinguished professor of medicine whose wife was hospitalized in a great university hospital was too frightened to leave her bedside. "I felt that if I was not there, something awful would happen to her," he told Berwick. "I needed to defend her from the care...