Now, weeks after the vast power failure, the significance of that exchange, at 3 48 p.m. on Aug. 14, has become clearer.
Our health-care morass is like the problems of global warming and the national debt — the kind of vast policy failure that is far easier to get into than to get out of.
For instance, a vast power failure occurred in Southern California in September; within minutes we could tell from the locations of Twitter messages saying "my power just went out" that it was widespread, long before the official announcement.
The technical and managerial ineptitude of one Ohio power company, FirstEnergy, appears to have been the primary cause of last August's vast power failure, which cut off electricity to tens of millions of people in eight states and parts of Canada.
The 'boys' were on the board but had no controls.... until 2003, when they discovered vast hidden failures and resumed control.
In addition, although the vast majority of failure modes for the other anchor-suture constructs was by suture breakage, the Panalok RC anchor and 3.5-mm Panalok anchor consistently failed by cutting of the suture through the biodegradable eyelet.
Unfortunately, prolonged hypermetabolism becomes detrimental and is associated with vast catabolism multiorgan failure, and death [ 3, 9, 10].
The vast majority of failures in this series were attributed to distant metastases.
This relatively frequent loss of abnormal findings to follow up is consistent with several lines of evidence in the literature which have shown that delays are most often the result of an accumulation of multiple errors [ 12- 14]; System factors were identified in two-thirds of the cases with delays; the vast majority involved failures to promptly evaluate abnormal findings.
Poor cessation rates can partly be attributed to the low uptake of efficacious smoking cessation methods [ 4] a review [ 5] of unassisted ("cold turkey") quit attempts concluded that the vast majority end in failure; however, even when smokers adopt effective cessation methods the most likely outcome is still failure.
