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Kleck Blot-after Justinus Kerner The cloudy indigo sky of the morningWas a Rorschach blot demandingInterpretation before I couldStart my hospital roundsIf you see a camel Wandering the shores of Lake ErieIt means you ’re a psychopathJust turn around and go back home If you perceive a zebra mounting your motherFrom behind take a bow, doff your capIt means your mind is half stripedHalf strappedAs for those other cloudsAvert your eyes from the billowingDress that shows too much when You stare too long at the liquid sunCall yourself from a burner phoneAsk to meet for lunchAnd then ghost him Lik...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - November 14, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Medicine & Art (Not necessarily in that order)
This video presentation was delivered in March 2023 in the Winter Talk series sponsored by NYC Urban Sketchers, hosted by Mark Leibowitz. Here I discuss how I have integrated medicine with art, and art with medicine, in the course of my career as a medical doctor in Manhattan.
I’ve had many people inspire me in my pursuit of both medicine and art, including Andreas Vesalius, Anton Chekhov, AJ Cronin, and Frank Netter. I would like to quote one of the doctors who inspired me. His name is William Carlos Williams, who was a practicing physician and a giant in the 20th century world of poetry. He wrote his ...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - November 12, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: Art & Medicine Geriatric Medicine art and medicine artist Improving Medical Care Jeff Levine MD medical artist medicine and art Source Type: blogs
A path to safer health care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! We’re joined by Barbara L. Olson, a nurse and the chief clinical officer at The Just Culture Company. We dive into the recent report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) titled “A Transformational Effort on Patient Safety.” Barbara shares
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A path to safer health care [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Malpractice Source Type: blogs
What Healthcare Policy or Regulation Would You Change if You Could?
Rules and regulations are put into place in order to keep people safe, on both the administrator end and the user end. This is especially important in the field of healthcare, where we are talking about people’s health and lives. But are all policies and regulations made by people with knowledge and experience in the field? Are these rules made with everyone’s best interest in mind? Or are there updates that need to be made in order to best fit the needs of our patients and our organizations? Has the environment changed in such a way that new policies or regulations are needed?
In search of an answer, we chat...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations 21st Century Cures Act CareRev Dave Ross Health Catalyst Healthcare Regulations Hlth HLTH 2023 HLTH Conference Information Blocking Innsena Kat McDavitt Nurse Rei Source Type: blogs
Capitalist pigs
I ' ve had a few things to say now and again about the incompatibility of the pursuit of profit with medicine. The corporatization and commodification of health care has been bad for people biologically, emotionally, and financially. There ' s a lot to unpack about that, but one of the most egregious problems is so-called private equity, that is companies that are not publicly traded, do not have to make substantive financial disclosures, and generally operate by buying up existing companies, squeezing profit out of them by cutting costs, and then selling them, usually as husks of their former selves. Here ' s one of innum...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 10, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Challenging misconceptions in nursing education
Regressive legislators in a Southwestern state discovered that doctoral-level nursing students, future nurse practitioners at the state university, were receiving education in human sexuality. As watchdogs of public morality, and with a conviction that these students were being educated to “groom” children to become transgender individuals, they did not pause to verify the information, review
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Challenging misconceptions in nursing education originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: M. Bennet Broner, PhD Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
A doctor ’ s thoughts on The Retrievals podcast
I recently listened to the podcast mini-series The Retrievals. It was fascinating and absolutely worth a listen. It’s the story of a Yale infertility clinic where a nurse was stealing fentanyl and replacing it with normal saline. As a result, women ended up getting egg retrievals with only midazolam, no pain control. There were interviews
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A doctor’s thoughts on The Retrievals podcast originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 9, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Valerie LeComte, DO Tags: Physician Medications Source Type: blogs
The Ins and Outs of Healthcare Communication Platforms
Communication is the key to making anything work – including your organization. But when dealing with all of the many things that providers do and the highly important health information about patients, something as simple as selecting a communication platform becomes a very tricky situation. What’s the best way for providers to coordinate the many different areas and people they have to handle? How many communication platforms do you even need to accomplish the goals of your organization without making it overcomplicated? How do you maintain the security and privacy of your patient’s health information a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Security and Privacy Abhi Sharma Ali Davis Amit Phadnis Care Coordination Communication Pl Source Type: blogs
Cognosos Leverages AI to Make Smart Real-Time Location Services Accurate and Affordable
Adrian Jennings, chief product officer of Cognosos, says that traditional real-time location services (RTLS) fail their clients. Either the services are so expensive that they’re not deployed widely enough, or they’re cheap but inaccurate. For instance, they might indicate that something is in the right room when it’s actually in a hallway in back.
Cognosos takes a different approach. There’s no need for a nurse to consult a device and ask where they can find a wheelchair or suction pump. “The goal is to blend into the background—everything just works.”
Instead of locating lost items, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Adrian Jennings Cognosos Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare RTLS Healthcare Supplies Healthcare Supply Management Source Type: blogs
About That New Generation of Clinicians
By KIM BELLARD
I saw a report last week – Clinician of the Future 2023 Education Edition, from Elsevier Health – that had some startling findings, and which didn’t seem to garner the kind of coverage I might have expected. Aside from Elsevier’s press release and an article in The Hill, I didn’t see anything about it. It’s worth a deeper look.
The key finding is that, although 89% say they are devoted to improving patients’ lives, the majority are planning careers outside patient care. Most intend to say in healthcare, mind you; they just don’t see themselves staying in direct patient...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Medical Practice Clinician Training Kim Bellard Medical School Nurses Physicians Source Type: blogs
Do clinicians know how to help people develop pain self management?
In recent posts I’ve been discussing pain self management and why it’s not only necessary, but inevitable for people living with pain. Today I turn my gaze to health professionals, and the skills needed to support developing self management – because it’s not the same as ‘telling’, or ‘educating’, or even ‘advising’.
Firstly, let’s check out what people with pain want in self management. Lim and colleagues (2019) conducted a systematic review examining studies identifying ‘health information needs’ of people with low back pain. I put that tit...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - November 5, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Coping Skills Low back pain Professional topics Science in practice Clinical reasoning healthcare pain management self-management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Rising nurse practitioner burnout: charting and work-life balance
Nurse practitioner (NP) burnout is at an all-time high. Many nurse practitioners (and health care providers in general) are struggling right now, feeling mentally, physically, and emotionally exhausted. Many are contemplating leaving health care altogether. The factors contributing to nurse practitioner burnout are multifactorial, stemming from various personal and work-related causes. However, for APRNs, there
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Rising nurse practitioner burnout: charting and work-life balance originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Erica Dorn, FNP Tags: Conditions Health IT Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Preserving Patient Dignity (Formerly Patient Modesty) Volume 128
Discussion Blog)
Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - November 3, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: blogs
Optimizing Healthcare IT: Four Innovative Ways to Use QR Codes
The following is a guest article by Ravi Pratap, Co-Founder and CTO at Beaconstac
Technology provides the foundation of modern healthcare, with the potential to generate $410 billion in annual revenue by 2025. Efficient IT solutions in healthcare organizations ensure optimal patient care and seamless operational functionality.
One such technology professionals often overlook is the QR code. And in an era where over six billion people have smartphones, incorporating the tool in healthcare makes sense. The following article shows four practical use cases for QR codes within the healthcare IT landscape.
Managing Medical Equip...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Beaconstac Healthcare Asset Tracking Information Access IT Assets Medical Equipme Source Type: blogs
What does the term “ doctor ” mean, who can use it, and does it matter?
From the Oxford Dictionary: Doctor. a qualified practitioner of medicine; a physician. (a number of synonyms are listed, including “quack”) a person who holds a doctorate. Increasingly, non-physicians are using the term “doctor.” Clearly, a doctorate degree allows the holder to use that term semantically, contextual puffery or not. Nurses can obtain a doctorate degree
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What does the term “doctor” mean, who can use it, and does it matter? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 31, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Michael Brant-Zawadzki, MD Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
