Issue 11 went out five days ago. This one is shorter and it is a different kind of note.
The Technology Was Never the Problem is on Amazon today, in paperback and Kindle.
If you have been reading these issues, you already know the argument. The six gates. The seventh one, culture, that holds the other six shut. The toll booth on a vocabulary the government requires. The book is where all of it comes from, at length, with the forty years of specifics underneath it that do not fit in a newsletter.
There are three things in it I have not written about here.
The first is Chapter 22, which is my own list of everything still wrong with the demonstration I built. I published the defect list because a claim this size is worth nothing without one.
The second is the foreword, by Peggy McDaniel, BSN, RN, who spent her career training clinicians on the infusion pumps this book spends a good deal of time arguing with. She wrote it on short notice and in the middle of a working life, and it is better than anything I could have written about my own book.
The third is Chapter 9, which is about a woman named Denise Melanson and a pump that was set to deliver 28.8 milliliters an hour when the number should have been 1.2. That chapter is the reason the rest of it exists.
Paperback and Kindle: pettusbook.com
One ask, and it is the only one I will make. If you read it and it is worth anything, three sentences on Amazon does more for a first book than anything I can do myself. A book with no reviews is invisible.
Inside the Loop goes back to normal next issue.
Dan