AUTOCORRECT

AUTOCORRECT helps us more than we realize, but isn’t your first thought when you hear the word the situations where it does not? EHR is preferred over EMR, but I sometimes use EMR to avoid correcting the AUTOCORRECT. Does that mean I’m really lazy or really efficient?

We all make mistakes. To err is human. To really screw up requires a computer. With modern technology our mistakes can get compounded quickly and widely.

Our highest value doesn’t come from not making mistakes – our highest value comes from recognizing, accepting, acknowledging, and acting to SELF-CORRECT mistakes. When you do that privately (perhaps a hundred times a day with AUTOCORRECT features) it is unnoticed. But when you do that publicly you demonstrate integrity and trustworthiness.

I never think less of someone for owning up to a mistake (unless perhaps they keep making the same mistake), I am much more concerned when mistakes are hidden – especially if we are counting on it for subsequent development.

I will continue to have great APPRECIATION for SELF-CORRECTION. It is how we safely produce things with the complexity of ROCKET SCIENCE, reduce the TENSION that will occur if the mistakes are discovered later, and provide the SUPPORT needed for anyone counting on our work.

Correction is changing a wrong to a right, but it can take courage to do the right thing. Mark Twain said “Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” Another quote I’m not sure to whom to attribute: Two wrongs do not make a right, but three rights make a left.