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The actual title is “How Complex Systems Fail” (full url: how.complexsystems.fail) which provides a slightly different meaning. The current title “Complex Syste

The actual title is “How Complex Systems Fail” (full url: how.complexsystems.fail) which provides a slightly different meaning. The current title “Complex Systems Fail” implies that we should not have complex systems but that’s does not appear to be the intention of the article. Rather we often require complex systems to solve complex problems and the article provides an exposition on failure in such systems: > (Being a Short Treatise on the Nature of Failure; How Failure is Evaluated; How Failure is Attributed to Proximate Cause; and the Resulting New Understanding of Patient Safety)

chrismorgan 6y ago
I believe HN removes words like “how” or “why” from the start of titles as part of its normalisation, though you can subsequently edit it to fix the title again. I strongly dislike this particular automatic edit because I reckon it’s normally wrong.
- nitrogen 6y ago
  I wish it would remove the word "just" from titles of the form "X just Y'd a Z".
namenotrequired 6y ago
It's interesting the subtitle mentions "patients" when the entire text applies fully for very different contexts, say, cruise ships
- inpharmer 6y ago
  Relative to aviation, nuclear power, and perhaps cruise ships, the spilled blood of victims of those complex systems resulted in improvements[0][1], while in healthcare the seminal text appeared first in 1999.[2] Healthcare has a lot to learn from other industries with inherent complexity. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster#Legacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster#Lega... [1] https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html#impact https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3... [2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25077248/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25077248/

chrismorgan 6y ago

I believe HN removes words like “how” or “why” from the start of titles as part of its normalisation, though you can subsequently edit it to fix the title again. I strongly dislike this particular automatic edit because I reckon it’s normally wrong.

nitrogen 6y ago
I wish it would remove the word "just" from titles of the form "X just Y'd a Z".

namenotrequired 6y ago

It's interesting the subtitle mentions "patients" when the entire text applies fully for very different contexts, say, cruise ships

inpharmer 6y ago
Relative to aviation, nuclear power, and perhaps cruise ships, the spilled blood of victims of those complex systems resulted in improvements[0][1], while in healthcare the seminal text appeared first in 1999.[2] Healthcare has a lot to learn from other industries with inherent complexity. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster#Legacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster#Lega... [1] https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html#impact https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3... [2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25077248/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25077248/