by snarly | Mar 18, 2014 | Apology Essentials, Institutional Apologies, Personal Apologies, Scientific apologies
Our pal Ivan Oransky at Retraction Watch, who’s also the VP of MedPage Today, alerted us to a terrific MedPage Today video about how and why doctors should apologize. It’s not embeddable, but you can watch it here. You should probably apologize if...
by sumac | Mar 14, 2014 | Personal Apologies
A woman is walking a large dog of a certain age along a residential sidewalk. Although portly, grizzled, and respectably rain-coated, dog is what police would probably call a “pit bull mix.” (Cue: SCARY MUSIC WITH GRATUITOUS RATTLESNAKES.) I’ll call him...
by snarly | Feb 26, 2014 | Personal Apologies, Political Apologies
One of our first posts was about Australia’s National Day of Healing (aka Sorry Day). It happens every February 13, the anniversary of the Australian Parliament’s decision to apologize to the indigenous peoples they’d had screwed over and abused for...
by snarly | Jan 28, 2014 | Artistic apologies, Historical Apologies, Personal Apologies
Courtesy of the marvelous Brain Pickings: My dear Annie: This is indeed dreadful. You have no idea of the grief I am in while I write. I am obliged to use an umbrella to keep the tears from running down on to the paper. Go there to read the whole thing, apologizing to...
by snarly | Dec 28, 2013 | Personal Apologies, Scientific apologies
We here at SorryWatch want to exalt the good, not just excoriate the bad. Here’s an apology that’s very, very good. N. Wayne Hale was the launch integration manager at NASA in 2003, when the space shuttle Columbia exploded. After the disaster, he emailed...
by snarly | Dec 26, 2013 | Historical Apologies, Personal Apologies
On Monday, Queen Elizabeth issued a royal pardon to Alan Turing, aka the father of modern computing. Turing was a mathematician whose work as a codebreaker during World War II saved the lives of countless British citizens. But he was also a gay man in an inhospitable...
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