May 4th, 2010 by Michael Sevilla, M.D. in Better Health Network, Opinion, True Stories
Tags: AAFP, Doctor Advocates, Empowered Physicians, Empowering Patients, Family Medicine Leader, Leadership Potential, Leadership Tasks, Leading Doctor, Medical Specialty, NCSC, Patient Empowerment, Physician Leadership, Positions of Leadership, Primary Care, Quality of Care
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What is a leader? What is a family medicine leader? Giving a clear and concise answer to these questions have been a challenge for me as I have taken on different leadership tasks and positions.
I can’t believe that it was 10 years ago when I gave my first speech in seeking national office for my professional organization. I was in the final year of my residency, and my colleagues had to convince me to “just give it a go.”
I had done a bunch of stuff on the state level. But, I didn’t feel my game was ready for “prime time” -– meaning being on a national stage. I remember that speech like it was yesterday. My heart still pounds and my hands still get sweaty thinking about it. At the time, it was the most stressful couple of minutes of my life. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Doctor Anonymous*
May 3rd, 2010 by Felasfa Wodajo, M.D. in Better Health Network, Health Policy, Opinion, Research, True Stories
Tags: Colleagues, Doctor-Patient Communication, Dr. Pauline Chen, EHRs, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMRs, General Medicine, Health Policy, Information Sharing and Retrieval, Intrusive aspects, New York Times, Primary Care
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[Here’s a] good article [from] the New York Times written by a doctor [Pauline Chen, M.D.] about intrusive aspects of electronic health records (EHRs) on doctor-patient communication. An excerpt:
“…just because EMR improves information sharing and retrieval, it doesn’t necessarily follow that our communication with patients and colleagues will also be better.”
Read the rest of the article here.
*This blog post was originally published at a few thoughts from a tumor surgeon*
May 2nd, 2010 by Shadowfax in Better Health Network, Humor, True Stories
Tags: Dr. Ambition, General Medicine, iPad, Japan, Mac, Orthopedics, OsiriX DICOM, Radiation, Technology, X-ray
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An orthopedic doctor in Japan wanted to see what made the iPad tick, so he threw it under an X-ray machine and posted the images to his blog.
We guess the good doctor (whose name is Dr. Ambition, according to his blog) wasn’t happy with all of the teardown photos and videos of the iPad. Or maybe he just wanted to see what happens when you pump it full of radiation.
Appropriately enough, the iPad’s X-ray was processed with OsiriX DICOM medical imaging software for Mac.
The good news for the iPad is that nothing was broken and, as long as the stool samples come back negative, it seems it can look forward to a long life.
*This blog post was originally published at Movin' Meat*
May 2nd, 2010 by Happy Hospitalist in Better Health Network, Health Tips, Opinion, True Stories
Tags: Active Lifestyle, Cancer, Diabetes, Diet and Nutrition, Family Medicine, Fat, Fitness and Exercise, Food and Nutrition, Fun Activities, Healthy Adults, Healthy Kids, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, Hospitalist Medicine, Hospitals, Immobility, Lazy, Lifestyle Changes, Obesity, Overweight, Pediatrics, Primary Care, Race, Role Models, Running, Stop Smoking, Stopped Moving, Stroke, Walk
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Kids are like dogs — you can train them until they’re too old to train. Then they’re going to do whatever they want.
The key to getting kids to exercise is to make it fun for them. But they aren’t going to exercise if it isn’t made a part of their normal routine. It’s up to adults to train them.
Mrs. Happy and I had the joyous opportunity of inviting our 10-year-old niece to her first-ever running event. She had never ever run in a race before. We did the two-mile race and she loved it. And amazingly, she finished without stopping — not even once.
Our nation is raising a nation of fat and lazy kids because we’re lazy adults. We drive everywhere. We sit at our desks. We get food on the run. We watch a lot of television. We surf the Net a bunch. And we have stopped moving. We have literally stopped moving. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at The Happy Hospitalist*
May 2nd, 2010 by DrWes in Better Health Network, Patient Interviews, True Stories, Video
Tags: Cardiology, Emotional Component, Heart Transplant, Organ Donation, Organ Transplantation, Ron Murray, Spiritual Component, Transplant Heart Recipient, Transplantation
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Mr. Ron Murray, a tranplant heart recipient, tells his story:
From the video:
“If the transplant issue ever comes up for anyone listening, that’s almost the first thing they would think, too. If I had time to think about it over that year, I would have realized ‘Oh, my God.’ I would have apprehension all built up about how I would react to…I mean is it going to change my way of thinking? Is it going to alter my own thoughts? None of that holds up, ultimately.
When I realized that there was going to be forever an emotional component, and maybe a spiritual component to this thing that I hadn’t thought about, is when I became –- God, I don’t even know if I can tell you about it –- that I began to grieve for the donor, that brought me to tears several of those nights. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Dr. Wes*
