Why Would Couch Potatoes Read the Book “The Haywire Heart”?
[Exercise] is undeniably the best medicine there is for preventing a host of cardiovascular diseases….Its documented beneficial results would qualify it as a mi...
Category: patient-centered care
art of medicine/CAH hospitals/electronic medical records/evidence-based medicine/health care reform/patient-centered care/rural health care
Sent to a Rural Hospital to Die
Rural hospitals are struggling in many areas, in part because the Critical Access Hospital (CAH) designation was created by the Centers for Medicare and Medicai...
art of medicine/health care reform/overuse of technology/patient-centered care/physician-patient relationship/rural health care
Attracting Physicians to Rural Medicine
“American medicine is probably the best in the world, but they rush too much and do too much unnecessary surgery.” Dr. Bohdran Hordinsky (1991) Ha...
The Story Space Between Physician and Patient
The healthcare mess just seems to be growing into a what appears to be a bigger and bigger train wreck bound to happen, fueled by the ridiculously black-and-whi...
electronic medical records/health care reform/overuse of technology/patient-centered care/physician-patient relationship
Useless Access to Patient Data
Patient access to their own health care data has snagged center stage for some time. Now there is a movement to make lab tests directly available to patients. S...
