Cavalacade of Risk #21 - Life is a Risky Business

Just when you thought it was safe to ... nevermind, this collection of posts reminds me that nothing is safe! But then life is not about avoiding risk, it's about managing it.

I recently started a new job in clinical risk management at a large teaching hospital, so I'm happy to share the tips, tricks, and articles that were collected for this edition of Cavalcade of Risk. Be (sort of) afraid...

George Lenard of George's Employment Blawg discusses the risks and benefits of corporate blogs.

Kami Huyse of Communcation Overtones adds to the discussion on the risks of corporate blogging in Top Ten Risks for Corporate Blogs.

Investments & Loans presents Does your Credit score matter? Short answer, only if you want to buy something, rent something or work somewhere.

Nenad Ristic at Money Conciousness asks What is Money?  and answers that it's pretty much worthless in and of itself. 

Amy LIn of Wisebread Careers discusses Adaptation: Lessons learned from being unemployed   How to manage the financial risks that come from being unemployed. 

Margaret Collins asks "Are we becoming just too afraid of "risk" for our own good?!" in the nefarious case of the Dangerous Doormats.

A couple of this week's submitters talked about the recent 'Wall Street Correction:' 

Silicon Valley Blogger of The Digerati Life presents What Do You Make Of A Stock Market Sell Off? 

and Bill Losapio writes about Scooping Froth from the Market at Will.

Leon Gettler of Sox First addresses the Top 10 business risks in a stable, growth environment.  They are rising raw material costs, debt, China and India, increased risk appetite, compliance, cyber crime, geopolitical forces, capital markets, inflation, and US housing.

Bob Sargent of Speciality Insurance Blog discusses Liability Waivers that have the objective of reducing an organization's exposure to claims. 

Jason Shafrin of Healthcare Economist presents Tax-preferred health savings accounts, describing five types of tax-preferred health savings accounts (HSAs) and why even those with large balances in their HSA will still want to purchase health insurance.

Mark Mayerson presents a discussion of recent case law on insurance appraisal proceedings in Appraising Appraisers and Appraisals.

Tom Lynch offers the lowdown on the long-awaited and much needed New York workers’ compensation reform in Workers' compensation reform in a New York minute. 

Praveen of My Simple Trading System presents the cost of Health Insurance.

Michael Cannon of Cato-at-Liberty presents Medicare Rx: Let the Sickie-Dumping Begin.

Michael Siegel, writing at the Tobacco Analysis blog, pursuasively argues against a proposed Illinois law criminalizing smoking in a car if there are children present.

David Williams of Health Business Blog says that Senators still seem to be missing the point on generic biologics, and advocates price regulation of generics post-patent expiration.

Jane Juvan of Juvan's Health Law Update also weighs in on FTC-backed legislation pertaining to generic drugs in Brand Names Take Note: Legislation Could Block Deals with Generics.

MHA's Society for Risk Management says chat away - in No Need to Ban Cell Phones in Hospitals.

Henry Stern of InsureBlog questions whether it's a good idea to make the HPV vaccine mandatory in I Call BS!.

Arnold Kling of EconLog tries to explain why health care costs keep going up in $125 K of premium medicine.

At Psych Central, Dr John Grohol warns that diabetic heart-patients who also suffer from depression are at greater risk, a triple-whammy.

Fat Doctor sees a child in public and wonders if she might be being abused.  She, and her commenters, contemplate what course of action won't put the child at greater risk in Dirty Kid.

Kim at Emergiblog warns about the risks of not putting your healthcare wishes down in writing in I Code Dead People.

John Sharp of eHealth warns about potential risks to patient privacy in How Private are Proprietary Personal Health Records? 

Yours truly of the MSSPNexus Blog discusses why physicians may find it difficult to believe the number of annual prevenatble deaths (98,000) reportedly occuring in the US Healthcare system is accurate in Patient Safety - Another Look at 'To Err is Human.'

Alvaro Fernandez of SharpBrains writes about making good decisions in risky environments at Best practice for top trading performance: biofeedback.

Alan of Made to be Great advises that It gets lonely at the top - How to handle rejection.

Walt Nation says that sometimes Failure Is An Advantage.

Dr. Suzanne Roff of 21st century Organization, reports on a risk conference she recently attended, which included some government leaders.

 

Stay tuned for the next episode of Cavalacade of Risk, to be held at Sentinel Effect on March 28th.

That's it for this edition. Thanks for stopping by, and thanks to Henry Stern, LUTCF, CBC, of InsureBlog for managing this high-risk carnival.

Comments

[hgstern]

 
Oh my....what an AMAZING job! Thank you for putting this together!!
 

[Tim]

It must have taken you an entire 2 minutes to write a one sentence vanilla description of each post and put a link. Well Done!