Our radio show taping this week included a conversation with two medical students. It was so refreshing and interesting to hear their perspectives on patient-doctor communications, and a variety of other topics. Something one of them said triggered a memory of a recent Grey’s Anatomy episode (no — not the one with the ferry accident […]
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Our radio show taping this week included a conversation with two medical students. It was so refreshing and interesting to hear their perspectives on patient-doctor communications, and a variety of other topics. Something one of them said triggered a memory of a recent Grey’s Anatomy episode (no — not the one with the ferry accident
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OK – so my Latin might be rusty, but a question came up this week that will help you understand even better how a patient needs to advocate on his/her own behalf…. I got a call from the mother of a friend of mine. (I’ll call her Jane.) Jane’s husband Max has been diagnosed with
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You can’t make this stuff up. My friend and colleague Ilene Corina from PULSE (patient safety organization) shared this story and has given me permission to share it with you: ………………….. Ever Wonder: Why Bother? By Ilene Corina I took my son for a skin procedure and the doctor who was working on his face
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At the beginning of the workshops I teach, I always begin with a brief review of this fact: that American Health Care is not about health and it’s not about care; it’s about sickness and it’s about money. I then go on to explain the three-cornered payment system: we patients (or our employers) pay the
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Yesterday I came down on the Times — so today I’ll give them some credit for Jane Brody’s article on health literacy. Seems that regardless of someone’s level of education, socio-economic status, age, race, etc, we are equally capable of being considered as “low health literate.” The article reviews two studies that cite earlier death
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A health report written by Eric Nagourney, and featured last week in the New York Times tells us that doctors spend almost 16 minutes with patients — at least those who are older than 65. The patients came from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds, and the study was done in three different medical situations, and
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One of the workshops I teach is called Diagnosis Detective, and I’ll be teaching it again tonite. The concept is based on the need for patients to use the information provided to them by their doctors to do research on their own to either support, or refute, their diagnosis and treatment options as provided by
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