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Merry Christmas From Better Health!

December 25th, 2010 by Maria Gifford in Better Health Network, Humor, Video

Tags: Apple, Better Health, Christmas, Entertainment, Holiday Season, iCreativity, iPad Apps, iPhone Apps, North Point Community Church, North Point iBand

Source: North Point iBand

Digital Nativity

December 24th, 2010 by GruntDoc in Better Health Network, Humor, Video

Tags: Christmas, Dr. Allen Roberts, GruntDoc, Holiday Season, Humor, Nativity

The nativity, in modern times. Awesomely done.

Thanks to @doc_rob.

*This blog post was originally published at GruntDoc*

An Animated Look At The Future Of Healthcare

December 17th, 2010 by Happy Hospitalist in Better Health Network, Health Tips, Humor, True Stories, Video

Tags: Disney World, Doctor Nurse Practitioner, Doctors in the Future, Dr. Nurse, Epcot Center, Epcot Spaceship Earth, Family Medicine, Future of American Healthcare, Future of Medical Practice, General Medicine, Happy Hospitalist, Health Insurance, Healthy Lifestyle, Healthy Living, Medical Cartoon Video, Medical Humor, Medical School Education, Nursing Education, Primary Care, Self-Care

Mrs. Happy and I just returned from Disney World for our Happy family vacation. (It was either that or a Parkinson’s Cruise.) While at Disney’s Epcot Center, Mama and Papa Happy discovered what the future of healthcare in America will look like, and it has nothing to do with insurance.

You’ve all seen that giant Epcot ball. Inside that ball is a slow-moving ride that takes you through thousands of years of history. At the end you choose your own future. I present to you this video showing the future of healthcare in America, courtesy of the Epcot Spaceship Earth and Mama and Papa Happy:

A couple words of mention. They still think there will be doctors in the future, unless their reference to doctors was reference to future nurse practitioners known as Dr. Nurse. That’s quite possible. Maybe that’s why the future of healthcare has nothing to do with medical care or insurance and has everything to do with healthy lifestyle. You don’t need to be a nurse for that, you just have to accept the truth of healthy living. And you don’t need a medical school education or even nursing education requirements to make that happen.

*This blog post was originally published at The Happy Hospitalist*

Video: “The Too-Informed Patient”

December 11th, 2010 by Elaine Schattner, M.D. in Better Health Network, Humor, Medical Art, Opinion, Video

Tags: Charles DelMarcelle, Communication Gap, Cutting-Edge Medicine, Dermatology, Doctor-Patient Communication, Doug Greene, Dr. Elaine Schattner, Empowered Patient, Epidermal Necrosis, Experimental Protocol, Experimental Treatment, General Medicine, Gregory Warner, Health IT, Informed Healthcare Consumer, Mara Zepeda, Marketplace, Medical Art, Medical Lessons, Medical Puppetry, Medical Skit, National Public Radio, New Medical Technology, NPR, Older Doctor, Older Physician, Patient Empowerment, Patient-Doctor Relationship, Patients' Interests, Philadelphia, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Sebastienne Mundheim, Skin Rash, Technology Gap, The Too-Informed Patient, White Box Theatre

This video, “The Too-Informed Patient,” came my way lately. It’s featured on NPR’s Mar­ket­place website:

The Too Informed Patient from Marketplace on Vimeo.

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The pup­peteer skit fea­tures the inter­ac­tion between a young man with a rash and his older physi­cian. The patient is an informed kind of guy: He’s checked his own med­ical record on the doctor’s web­site, read up on rashes in the Boston Globe, checked pix on WebMD, seen an episode of “Gray’s Anatomy” about a rash and, most inven­tively, checked iDiagnose, a hypo­thet­i­cal app (I hope) that led him to the con­clu­sion that he might have epi­der­mal necro­sis.

“Not to worry,” the patient informs Dr. Matthews, who mean­while has been try­ing to exam­ine him (“Say aaahhh” and more): He’s eli­gi­ble for an exper­i­men­tal pro­to­col. After some back-and-forth in which the doc­tor — who’s been quite cour­te­ous until this point, call­ing the patient “Mr. Horcher,” for exam­ple, and not admon­ish­ing the patient who’s got so many ideas of his own — the doc­tor says that the patient may be exac­er­bat­ing the con­di­tion by scratch­ing it, and ques­tions the wis­dom of tak­ing an exper­i­men­tal treat­ment for a rash. Read more »

*This blog post was originally published at Medical Lessons*

200 Healthcare Systems In 4 Minutes

December 8th, 2010 by Berci in Better Health Network, Research, Video

Tags: Dr. Bertalan Mesko, Gapminder Foundation, Hans Rosling, Healthcare Data, Healthcare Systems, Science Roll

Hans Rosling, director of the Gapminder Foundation, just released another spectacular video featuring 200 years of 200 healthcare systems with 12,000 numbers in four minutes. Enjoy:

*This blog post was originally published at ScienceRoll*