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Understanding Medical Conversations
December 2, 2017
Good documentation helps create good clinical care by communicating a doctor's thinking, their concerns, and their plans to the rest of the team. Unfortunately, physicians routinely spend more time doing documentation than doing what they love most — caring for patients. Doctors often spend ~6 hours in an 11-hour workday in the Electronic Health Records (EHR) on documentation.1Consequently, one study found that more than half of surveyed doctors report at least one symptom of burnout.2 In...
December 2, 2017
Good documentation helps create good clinical care by communicating a doctor's thinking, their concerns, and their plans to the rest of the team. Unfortunately, physicians routinely spend more time doing documentation than doing what they love most — caring for patients. Doctors often spend ~6 hours in an 11-hour workday in the Electronic Health Records (EHR) on documentation.1Consequently, one study found that more than half of surveyed doctors report at least one symptom of burnout.2 In...
Mercedes Plans More Drone Deliveries After 100 Perfect Flights
December 2, 2017
Mercedes-Benz, conducting the biggest test using drones to ship everyday items like ground coffee and cellphones, said the mini aircraft completed 100 drop-offs to strategically placed vans in Zurich with a perfect safety record and more deliveries are planned for next year. About 50 individual customers placed orders with Swiss online shopping platform Siroop, choosing “airmail deals” from selected items from retailer Black & Blaze Coffee Roasting Co. for same-day delivery. The drones...
December 2, 2017
Mercedes-Benz, conducting the biggest test using drones to ship everyday items like ground coffee and cellphones, said the mini aircraft completed 100 drop-offs to strategically placed vans in Zurich with a perfect safety record and more deliveries are planned for next year. About 50 individual customers placed orders with Swiss online shopping platform Siroop, choosing “airmail deals” from selected items from retailer Black & Blaze Coffee Roasting Co. for same-day delivery. The drones...
Listening Leads to Empathy
December 1, 2017
Have you ever sat back with your eyes closed and listened to music or someone speaking? Why did you do it? Probably, to appreciate more fully and deeply what you were hearing. By shutting down one of our senses, we allow ourselves to hone in more deeply to the music or conversation. Well, you are not crazy for doing this. A recent study, posted on LiveScience.com (posted on October 10, 2017 entitled Listen, Don’t Look: Why Your Ears Can Tell More Than Your Eyes by Samantha Mattewson) reveals...
December 1, 2017
Have you ever sat back with your eyes closed and listened to music or someone speaking? Why did you do it? Probably, to appreciate more fully and deeply what you were hearing. By shutting down one of our senses, we allow ourselves to hone in more deeply to the music or conversation. Well, you are not crazy for doing this. A recent study, posted on LiveScience.com (posted on October 10, 2017 entitled Listen, Don’t Look: Why Your Ears Can Tell More Than Your Eyes by Samantha Mattewson) reveals...
Eleventh Circuit Acknowledges Role for State Arbitration Laws
December 1, 2017
The Eleventh Circuit recently issued an opinion dealing with vacatur of an arbitration award. Original Appalachian Artworks, Inc. v. Jakks Pacific, Inc., No. 17-11513 (11th Cir. Nov. 17, 2017) (click here for a copy of the decision). The case involved the owner of the Cabbage Patch brand of toys and a licensee who was authorized to manufacture and distribute the toys for a limited time period on an exclusive basis. A few months before this exclusive license expired, the owner began negotiating...
December 1, 2017
The Eleventh Circuit recently issued an opinion dealing with vacatur of an arbitration award. Original Appalachian Artworks, Inc. v. Jakks Pacific, Inc., No. 17-11513 (11th Cir. Nov. 17, 2017) (click here for a copy of the decision). The case involved the owner of the Cabbage Patch brand of toys and a licensee who was authorized to manufacture and distribute the toys for a limited time period on an exclusive basis. A few months before this exclusive license expired, the owner began negotiating...
Fifth Circuit Rules Louisiana Non-Resident Attachment Statute May be Used Prior to Anticipated Arbitration
November 30, 2017
A United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit panel has issued an interesting ruling in a case involving arbitration. In Stemcor USA, Inc. v. Cia Siderurgica Do Para Cosipar; Daewoo Int’l Corp. v. Thyssenkrupp Mannex Gmbh v. America Metals Trading, LLP, No. 16-30984 (5th Cir., Sept. 1, 2017), two foreign corporate creditors, Daewoo and Thyssenkrupp Mannex GMBH (“TKM”), sought to attach pig iron that was owned by America Metals Trading, LLP (“AMT”). The case began when Daewoo...
November 30, 2017
A United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit panel has issued an interesting ruling in a case involving arbitration. In Stemcor USA, Inc. v. Cia Siderurgica Do Para Cosipar; Daewoo Int’l Corp. v. Thyssenkrupp Mannex Gmbh v. America Metals Trading, LLP, No. 16-30984 (5th Cir., Sept. 1, 2017), two foreign corporate creditors, Daewoo and Thyssenkrupp Mannex GMBH (“TKM”), sought to attach pig iron that was owned by America Metals Trading, LLP (“AMT”). The case began when Daewoo...
What Have We Learned From The Global Pound Conferences?
November 30, 2017
In the forty years since new visions and challenges for the administration of American justice were offered at the 1976 Pound Conference, a Quiet Revolution has altered the landscape of public and private dispute resolution around the world. (See Living the Dream of ADR). Despite these limitations, the Global Pound Conference poll leaves us with a number of general impressions about current dispute resolution practice, and raises several tantalizing prospects for future evolution....
November 30, 2017
In the forty years since new visions and challenges for the administration of American justice were offered at the 1976 Pound Conference, a Quiet Revolution has altered the landscape of public and private dispute resolution around the world. (See Living the Dream of ADR). Despite these limitations, the Global Pound Conference poll leaves us with a number of general impressions about current dispute resolution practice, and raises several tantalizing prospects for future evolution....
Real Car Dealing
November 29, 2017
I just listened to an episode of a This American Life podcast entitled 129 Cars, referring to a car dealership’s monthly sales quota. A team of reporters followed various people at a Long Island dealership for a month and the episode sounds like a sitcom. But it is very real, reflecting tensions in negotiations between the manufacturer and the dealership as well as between various employees at the dealership — not to mention tension between the dealership and the customers. This...
November 29, 2017
I just listened to an episode of a This American Life podcast entitled 129 Cars, referring to a car dealership’s monthly sales quota. A team of reporters followed various people at a Long Island dealership for a month and the episode sounds like a sitcom. But it is very real, reflecting tensions in negotiations between the manufacturer and the dealership as well as between various employees at the dealership — not to mention tension between the dealership and the customers. This...
Oberdiek on a Normative Theory of Risk Imposition
November 29, 2017
John Oberdiek (Rutgers Law School) has posted Imposing Risk: A Normative Framework (OUP, 2017) (Introduction) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This is the Introduction to Imposing Risk: A Normative Framework (Oxford University Press, 2017). Human life has always been shadowed by risks like disease and natural disaster, but modern life is distinctively risky. In the first instance, today, risk utterly permeates life. The sheer variety and scope of risks that attend industrialized and industrializing...
November 29, 2017
John Oberdiek (Rutgers Law School) has posted Imposing Risk: A Normative Framework (OUP, 2017) (Introduction) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This is the Introduction to Imposing Risk: A Normative Framework (Oxford University Press, 2017). Human life has always been shadowed by risks like disease and natural disaster, but modern life is distinctively risky. In the first instance, today, risk utterly permeates life. The sheer variety and scope of risks that attend industrialized and industrializing...
Arbitration Award For Cabbage Patch Kids Is Confirmed
November 28, 2017
What could be a better subject for a Black Friday weekend post than the Cabbage Patch Kids??! Especially if you are old enough to remember the 1980s… Whether you loved or hated the smushed-face dolls, the point of this post is that the 11th Circuit confirmed an arbitration award in their favor, showing significant deference to the arbitrator. Original Appalachian Artworks, Inc. v. Jakks Pacific, Inc., 2017 WL 5508498 (11th Cir. Nov. 17, 2017). The dispute was between the company that owns...
November 28, 2017
What could be a better subject for a Black Friday weekend post than the Cabbage Patch Kids??! Especially if you are old enough to remember the 1980s… Whether you loved or hated the smushed-face dolls, the point of this post is that the 11th Circuit confirmed an arbitration award in their favor, showing significant deference to the arbitrator. Original Appalachian Artworks, Inc. v. Jakks Pacific, Inc., 2017 WL 5508498 (11th Cir. Nov. 17, 2017). The dispute was between the company that owns...
Rachlinski & Wistrich on Empirical Investigation of Judicial Impartiality
November 28, 2017
Jeffrey J. Rachlinski and Andrew J. Wistrich (Cornell Law School and California Central District Court) have posted Judging...
November 28, 2017
Jeffrey J. Rachlinski and Andrew J. Wistrich (Cornell Law School and California Central District Court) have posted Judging...
