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Margaret Verble
Although I haven’t mentioned it on this page before, writing is a large part of my professional life. I write for two hours every morning before I come into work, and then often I come in and write some more. Some of my writing is ghostwriting I can’t discuss, but I’d like to alert you to pieces that will appear under my name either later this winter or this spring. Judy and I have a new article scheduled for the March issue of Progress in Transplantation. It is entitled, “Addressing the Unintended Adverse Consequences of First-Person Consent and Donor Registries.”
Judy Worth
Sixty-two hospitals completed the Lean portion of 
the collaborative and reported their project results to the entire group last December. While the focus of the collaborative was improving Length of Stay in the ER, many of the participants found the enhanced communication and teamwork inside the ER and flowing out to units in the hospital, the lab, radiology and emergency medical services to be equally valuable.
David Verble
At the moment, I'm most focused on a new concept, Leading Culture Change from the Hubs, that I believe is the wave of the future in lean continuous improvement.
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lthough I haven’t mentioned it on this page before, writing is a large part of my professional life. I write for two hours every morning before I come into work, and then often I come in and write some more. Some of my writing is ghostwriting I can’t discuss, but I’d like to alert you to pieces that will appear under my name either later this winter or this spring.
Judy and I have a new article scheduled for the March issue of Progress in Transplantation. It is entitled, “Addressing the Unintended Adverse Consequences of First-Person Consent and Donor Registries.” This article has grown out of our work training organ donation coordinators here, in the U.K and in Australia. We are seeing patterns in refusals to donate that we find alarming and that were not present in the first decade and a half of our work in this field. This article is likely to be highly controversial, as it runs contrary to accepted wisdom, and we hope people will read it with open minds. We’re not trying to make enemies. We’re just reflecting on what we believe to be the downside of the current strategy employed to get consents for organ donations.
The writing I do early every morning (this season, before dawn) is fiction. I’ve been doing this for some time, and haven’t been an overnight success. But I have begun to be successful lately, and currently have two pieces scheduled for publication. One is a piece of flash fiction (by definition under 1000 words) due out this winter in Grey Sparrow. It’s called, “Pork Today.” The other one is, “The Teller,” a short story scheduled for the spring issue of the Arkansas Review. I write fiction under my middle name, Haden. There’s a story behind that, but I won’t tell it here.
December, 2012