Los médicos a menudo tienen prioridades en el entorno clínico que reducen el tiempo para un diálogo a fondo con los pacientes. Esta conversación generalmente contiene información sobre procedimientos o [...]
Every single time you borrow money—from student loans to credit cards or home mortgages and car loans—it all goes into several databases, all run by for-profit businesses who happily compile [...]
Engaging with patients is a time-honored tradition in medicine, and by no means a new concept. A great physician-patient relationship is something that every patient would love to have. Back [...]
Clinicians often have competing priorities in the clinical setting which hinder their ability to provide time for thorough dialogue with patients. Often, this dialogue contains information about procedures or processes [...]
A parent should never have to watch their child die after they’ve been asking repeatedly for help, screaming to be heard, with no response.
“Why is her fever so high?”
“Why does [...]
By: Olivia Lounsbury, Patient Safety Movement Foundation
The coronavirus has pulled the band-aid off of our healthcare system and has exposed the system’s failures. Under normal circumstances, 220,000-440,000 people die from [...]
By: Olivia Lounsbury, Patient Safety Movement Foundation
Those older than 65 and with long term conditions are, clinically speaking, more at risk for COVID-19 complications and poorer outcomes. Healthcare workers are [...]
By: Lauren Berkow, MD FASA and Arthur Kanowitz MD FACEP, Coalition for UE Awareness & Prevention
Healthcare providers have an increased risk of exposure to COVID-19, both during intubation and extubation.
Caregivers [...]
You wouldn’t think about eating at a restaurant that had a poor grade on food quality, so why not hold your hospital to the same standard? Joanne Disch, Clinical Professor [...]
Growing evidence indicates that patients face greater risk from surgeries performed at low-volume hospitals. Since the 1979 landmark study that examined mortality rates for 12 surgical procedures of varying complexity [...]
