I’d broken my right arm (fractured my radius; a Colles’ fracture) in early March 2016, and had gone to a local community hospital. The emergency physician there had done an excellent job of setting it; I know, because she proudly showed me the before and Read More …
In late winter of 2016, I slipped on a patch of ice and broke my arm. I fell hard onto my right hand and hip, so consider myself lucky not to have broken my hip. That said, I snapped the radius clear through. I’m right-handed, Read More …
A few years ago, I wrote a post about kindness in healthcare (Kindness is underrated), which referred to a book that had recently been co-authored by a medical psychotherapist. At the time, Dr. Penelope Campling was Clinical Director of a Partnership Trust of England’s National Read More …
As I was preparing to post this comic(1) for April Fool’s Day, I realized that this type of situation occurs all too frequently, even within healthcare and medicine. How often do we read about this type of thing happening with medical records, with PHI? In privacy and biomedical ethics, Read More …
Why is trust so important in healthcare? A 2006 study (1) stated that “People’s trust in health care and health care professionals is essential for the effectiveness of health care”. Another medical journal article (2) argued “that trust is still essential to health care encounters, Read More …
A few weeks ago, I wrote that I’ve been taking a course on the social determinants of health (SDoH). This offering(1) is a collaboration between the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) and the Institute of Health Equity, the latter of course being home to Read More …
