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Healing Hospitals: Get ready… Get set…
One of Johnny Carson’s funniest ongoing “bits” (He was the guy who hosted The Tonight Show before Jay Leno) was that of Carnac the Magnificent. Carnac was a psychic with a large elaborate turban and a...
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Running to a Hospital
Periodically, it brings me comfort to return to my home base, and that is a place where not enough of my former peers have still journeyed. One of my more spiritual friends always stops my...
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Could We Do It Better?
Several months ago, I met a white-haired gentleman of average stature at a meeting. When I asked him what he did, he replied, “I’m a patient advocate.” “So am I,” I said. “I even wrote a book,...
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A Speech to the Risk Managers at RM&PSI
RM&PSI, the Risk Management and Patient Safety Institute provided a forum for me to not only give a speech today on patient advocacy, but also to passionately press for its members to take up the...
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What’s Wrong With This Picture?
The Modern Healthcare edition of September 6, 2010 has a cover headline that reads: “Passing the Buck,” and the descriptor goes on to explain that “Yet a new report says workers’ share of benefit costs...
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Medical Homes – Defining What Patients Want
The definition of a medical home can be confusing to those who have not been dedicated students of this terminology. As the medical home concept has been added to the healthcare landscape of the U.S.,...
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Excerpts and Opinions on “What Makes a Hospital Great?”
Dr. Pauline W. Chen’s March 17th New York Times article answers the question, “What Makes a Hospital Great?” In this article, Dr. Chen finds: Pauline W. Chen, MD | Blog: paulinechen.typepad.com...
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Sometimes it’s Better to Punch a Bear in the Face
I’ve tried to avoid controversy, but since my reading audience has dropped by a few thousand readers after departing my previous CEO position a few years back, I doubt that this will cause me any more...
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Accountable Care Organizations
Avery Johnson of the Wall Street Journal wrote an excellent explanatory article this week about accountable care organizations – ACO’s. They’re a potential spin out from the Health Care Reform Act...
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Treating People With Dignity
As part of my continuing series of anti-bullying blog posts, this week’s post was inspired by a WDUQ/NPR interview of the authors of a book entitled: Unleashing the Power of Unconditional Respect:...
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Memories of a new puppy and Pet Therapy
It was a brisk, early, spring, weekend morning and Joanna, then a 16-year-old, now mother of four, said that we needed a transition dog. Tessie, our part-golden, part-black lab, part-border collie was...
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Four ways to improve access to Integrative Medicine Practices
Licensure, regulation, medical evidence, and funding are four sure ways to speed up the process needed to allow integrative medicine practices to be embraced. If we begin with the assumption that money...
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