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Archive for January, 2014

Unknowingly, doctors experience a lot of stress and trauma

Jan
07

Date: January 7th, 2014

Recently over lunch hour, we were talking together with some new friends at the famous Hominy Café, Charleston. I had a burning question to these esteemed educators of emergency medicine.

Who should know about your test results first?

Jan
06

Date: January 6th, 2014

Various options for lab results deliveryRight now, health care evolution is going through a push pull situation where everything is all about you. People are debating a pretty simple question of whether you can handle to be the first person to know about your test results.

Should we be comfortable when speaking about death?

Jan
05

Date: January 5th, 2014

How to engage meaningfully with dying patientsAs we slowly drove west, our cab had a palpable tension. Our taxi driver who was driving us to our patient’s retirement home had numerous stories to tell us about how the locality was beautiful during summer time and things about the local prisons.

How to make hospitals a better place for patients

Jan
04

Date: January 4th, 2014

Patients sometimes have to deal with a dehumanizing experienceLife as a clinical student means that you get to experience certain hardships as you go about your day to day activities.

Inspiring a new oncologists generation

Jan
03

Date: January 3rd, 2014

The future of oncology professionOne of the things that I really enjoy being an academic oncologist is an opportunity of teaching and impacting knowledge on others.

Should OpenNotes be made a standard of care?

Jan
02

Date: January 2nd, 2014

Why clinicians should support the OpenNotes concept?The fundamental OpenNotes tenets aim at ensuring that patients are able to access their notes from their physicians within some few years to come.

The truth about vaccine safety

Jan
01

Date: January 1st, 2014

Oprah needs to dedicate a show to reveal the truth about vaccine safetyThere is absolutely no doubt that Oprah received spectacular ratings thanks to her popularized Lance Armstrong interview.