The GAO (Government Accountability Office) has begun hearings on Boeing’s protest of the tanker refueling contract. The hearings, in Washington, D.C., began Monday and are expected to last all week. A ruling by the GAO — which is not binding but normally followed by Congress — is expected by June 19.
Most folks following this whole affair think the GAO will uphold the original contract, which was awarded to Northrop Grumman and Airbus. But no matter how the GAO rules, this dispute is far from over. If Boeing loses its protest, expect Congress to step in to overturn the contract.
I ran into a very fit and relaxed Carlos Mayans today while working out at the Genesis on Socora in West Wichita. He leisurely ambled between weight lifting machines and then shot some hoops. Hard to believe he could have had many mornings as casual as this when he was mayor.
Mayans mentioned that he recently tried Sabor Latin Bar & Grille. If you’ll recall, he once talked of opening his own Latin grill.
At Sabor, Mayans ordered fried bananas but instead was served plantain chips. He liked them but they weren’t what he was expecting, so he quickly called out Chef Jason-Paul Febres. The two got to talking and realized they’d met before. It was a long, long time ago when the Venezuelan Febres was about 7 years old and visiting his uncle in Wichita.
Along with making Mayans some true fried bananas, which he reports he thoroughly enjoyed, Febres extended an invitation for Mayans to come cook in the Sabor kitchen one day.
I’ve had some of Mayans’ cooking — one dish he spent three days marinating — and can testify that he knows what he’s doing. If he takes Febres up on his offer, it’ll be a good day to order fried bananas.
Can you imagine a physician calling you a “moron” before throwing his clipboard — or, God forbid, his scalpel — across the room?
Unbelievably, if you’re a nurse or technician or other similar underling, that may sometimes happen to you, according to a report by AIS Health.com.
These so-called “disruptive doctors” are as bad as 2-year-olds throwing tantrums. According to AIS managing editor Nina Youngstrom:
Disruptive physicians are the kind who make life miserable for the people with whom they work — their health care team — with belittling remarks (e.g., “Are you a moron?”), sarcasm (e.g., “It’s hard to believe you even have a nursing degree!”), yelling and screaming when things don’t go their way and throwing things around the room.
Unfortunately, this kind of behavior is having far-reaching consequences in this day and age of quality and safety reporting, and enhanced government oversight of hospitals. The stakes are higher for accreditation and hospitals are now being encouraged — and even given tools — to help these disruptive docs change their behavior.
We wish them luck.