January 2009
18 posts
Doctor and Patient The Hidden Curriculum of... →
“I’ve often thought of her statement in the years since. Is bedside manner something we are born with, or is it something we can learn?
While most of medical education and training is about the nuts and bolts of clinical care — how to treat hypertension, how to manage a ventilator, how to take out a gallbladder — the process also involves learning how to be “a doctor.” As opposed to lessons...
Back to school: Doctors who train doctors learn... →
“Five years ago, Indiana University changed its medical school to emphasize “relationship-centered care,” Frankel said. “The whole idea is that if you invest in developing positive relationships between faculty, students and residents, those relationships will transfer to how care is delivered. We’ve seen a lot of big changes in our medical school as a consequence of...
Rebuilding a child-friendly America →
“President Obama has the chance to bring together “the different strands of American society” and leverage growing support for early-childhood initiatives. He wants a Presidential Early Learning Council. He promises $10 billion for new programs, including a quadrupling of the financing for Head Start. He also wants to recruit a new generation of teachers and to mobilize young...
Getting There From Here by Atul Gawande The New... →
“Yes, American health care is an appallingly patched-together ship, with rotting timbers, water leaking in, mercenaries on board, and fifteen per cent of the passengers thrown over the rails just to keep it afloat. But hundreds of millions of people depend on it. The system provides more than thirty-five million hospital stays a year, sixty-four million surgical procedures, nine hundred...
Doctor and Patient Building a Healthy Community,... →
“Since 1991, primary care physicians, administrators and state legislators there have worked to create and support a state Medicaid program called Community Care of North Carolina. The program has not only offered high-quality, patient-centered care for the state’s neediest children and adults, but has also saved millions of dollars in health care costs.”
PROMUTUAL GROUP’S NEW APOLOGY PROGRAM HELPS... →
“We as a company have always felt that apology and disclosure was simply the right thing to do,” said Richard W. Brewer, president and CEO of ProMutual Group.
“Studies show that apology and disclosure following an adverse outcome often satisfactorily resolve the situation for patients. In light of this research as well as anecdotal evidence from more than 30 years as a medical liability...
WHO gets Gates grant for child medicines research →
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday it had received a $9.7 million grant from the U.S.-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for research into the production and dosage of medicines for children.
Surgical Safety Checklist to Reduce Morbidity and... →
“Background Surgery has become an integral part of global healthcare, with an estimated 234 million operations performed yearly.Surgical complications are common and often preventable. Wehypothesized that a program to implement a 19-item surgicalsafety checklist designed to improve team communication andconsistency of care would reduce complications and deaths associatedwith surgery.”
What is the National Children’s Study? →
The National Children’s Study will examine the effects of environmental influences on the health and development of 100,000 children across the United States, following them from before birth until age 21. The goal of the Study is to improve the health and well-being of children.
Watch this video and learn more about the Study.
Critically ill child care lacking: Most children... →
The article states that Dr David Inwald, clinical senior lecturer in paediatric intensive care at Imperial College and study leader, said it was the first time the issue had been looked at systematically in the UK.
“We know that children who present in shock because of infection aggressive fluid resuscitation can improve survival.
“It was a surprise that the guidelines...
Weighing impact of bad doc behavior on medical... →
In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Jean DerGurahian talks with Dean Griffen, chairman of the American College of Surgeons Patient Safety and Professional Liability Committee, about the impact of doctors’ behavior on medical outcomes.
Little White-Coat Lies →
“There’s good data that doctors don’t do a good job of listening, sometimes cutting off patients within 20 seconds of their opening line,” says pulmonologist Dr. Jeff Rabatinof the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Maine. Rabatin, who has codirected communication skills workshops and has written about the subject, says that doctors can learn how to effectively talk to their...
Daniel Goleman, best-selling author of "Emotional... →
Writing in support of our campaign, Goleman says, “Healing has a broader meaning than simply curing a disease; it implies helping a person regain a sense of wholeness and emotional wellness. Patients need healing along with their medical care - and compassion heals in ways that no medicine or technology can.”
Hospital Opens New Training Center... →
“It is a bit like Las Vegas. “What happens here stays here, and there are a lot of cameras,” Ward said. “This is the place to make your mistakes. You want to mess up with a mannequin, not on a real patient.”
Parents share heartbreak over death of child By... →
Losing a child is like losing the center of your life, experts say.
“Our job as a parent is to protect and raise them, look out for them, anticipate their needs,” said Dr. Jane Bissler, a clinical director for Counseling for Wellness in Kent, Ohio. “When a child dies suddenly, your brain just works to try to make sense out of nonsense. It’s not supposed to have happened....
Request for Information:Justin's HOPE Surveys on... →
I’ve created 3 Justin’s HOPE surveys regarding adverse medical events. They are located at the bottom of my home page, linked above. It’s been about a year since they were first released and I’ve had great feedback from patients, families, nurses, social workers, CEOs and pharmacists. Physicians haven’t replied, yet, but have personally shared experiences with me...
Healthcare 411 Audio Podcasts →
Great news series podcasts from AHRQ.