Content tagged with 'Medical Education'
What Do I Tweet – and Why?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | April 3, 2013 | Jessie Gruman
Who would have thought that Twitter, this tiny aperture – a mere 140 characters – could connect me with so many smart, feisty, tough people who share, amplify, and improve on my efforts to spread carefully chosen health and health care content through their responses, retweets, modified tweets and acknowledgements?
Here’s why I tweet what I tweet...
Primary Care Physicians Missing Early Signs of Serious Mental Illness
HBNS STORY | March 21, 2013
Primary care providers could help people with warning signs of psychosis get critical early treatment and potentially reduce the current burden on emergency departments and inpatient units, finds a study in the journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.
Finding Treatment Information
PREPARED PATIENT RESOURCE | Make Good Treatment Decisions
Need to find more information on tests and treatments commonly used for your condition? These websites can help.
Understanding Medical Terms
PREPARED PATIENT RESOURCE | Make Good Treatment Decisions
It can be useful to have a general sense of what some common medical terms mean in order to understand your condition, medication or treatment plans.
Getting Support for Healthy Living
PREPARED PATIENT RESOURCE | Promote Your Health
If you’re sick or simply want to make healthier choices, you’re not alone. These days you can get support from people like you, both in person and online.
Online Health Resources: Trusted Sources
PREPARED PATIENT RESOURCE | Seek Knowledge About Your Health
Searching online for information about your or your loved one’s health is a good idea, but it can sometimes be difficult to know what sites to trust. Here are a few websites with reliable health information.
Finding Health Information You Can Trust
PREPARED PATIENT RESOURCE | Seek Knowledge About Your Health
The Internet can be a gold mine for health information seekers, but separating the helpful and accurate from the inaccurate and downright dangerous can be a daunting task.
Health Care Providers Can Learn to Communicate Better with Patients
HBNS STORY | December 18, 2012
Medical students, doctors and nurses can be taught to use a more holistic, patient-centered approach during medical consultations, focusing on the person and not just their medical complaint, finds a new review in The Cochrane Library.
Education Can Reduce Use of Antipsychotic Drugs in Nursing Home Patients
HBNS STORY | December 13, 2012
A new review in The Cochrane Library finds that education and social support for staff and caregivers can reduce the use of antipsychotic drugs in nursing home patients with dementia.
More Money, More Time: Will that Improve Physician-Patient Communications?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | November 8, 2012 | Stephen Wilkins
I don’t think so, and here’s why. I have yet to meet a physician who did not agree with the importance of effective physician-patient communication…in principle.
A Year of Living Sickishly: A Patient Reflects
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | September 13, 2012 | Jessie Gruman
The essays collected here reflect on what it felt like as a patient with a serious illness, to cobble together a plan with my clinicians that works and to slog through the treatments in the hope that my cancer will be contained or cured and that I will be able to resume the interesting life I love.
Guest Blog: Why You'll Listen to Me ' but Not to Your Doctor
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | May 25, 2012 | Carolyn Thomas
As I like to remind my women's heart health presentation audiences, I am not a physician. I'm not a nurse. I am merely a dull-witted heart attack survivor. I also warn them that a lot of what I'm about to say to them is already available out there, likely printed on some wrinkled-up Heart and Stroke Foundation brochure stuffed into the magazine rack at their doctor's office.
Guest Blog: Minimally Disruptive Health Care: Treatment that Fits
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | April 26, 2012 | Marcus Escobedo
My mom has always worked hard'.Now on Medicare and about to retire after 30 years, she will have to continue working hard, as will my retired father. I'm not talking about the time they'll spend maintaining their home or raising grandchildren. I'm talking about the difficult work that they, like millions of others, grudgingly started as they began approaching 65 ' the work of managing their multiple chronic conditions.
Guest Blog: What Should Go in a Social History?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | March 13, 2012 | Vineet Arora
As I am on service, I realized that one thing that can be easily lost in the race to take care of patients with limited duty hours ' the social history.
Guest Blog: Giving the Patient Bad News
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | March 13, 2012 | Anne Polta
The patient, a young rodeo rider from rural Ohio, lies in a hospital bed, sick and in pain. The doctor has the results of his bone marrow biopsy and the news isn't good.
Guest Blog: A New Breed of Doctor
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | March 5, 2012 | Anne Polta
Starting in 2015, students who aspire to become doctors will be tested on more than just their knowledge of the sciences. They'll also need to have a good understanding of psychology, sociology and biology and how these forces help shape individual health and behavior.
Guest Blog: Costs of Care...and Coercion?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | February 28, 2012 | John Schumann
Nora, a third year medical student, came to me in moral distress. Ms. DiFazio, one of the hospitalized patients on her Internal Medicine rotation, was frightened to undergo an invasive (and expensive) medical procedure: cardiac catheterization.
What is the Scope of Primary Care?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | November 29, 2011 | Inside Health Care
Even when you know you should see a doctor, it can be hard to know whether to visit your primary care provider or consult a specialist. In this roundup, physician bloggers consider the range of services covered by PCPs.
The Formidable Complexity of Making (Some) Health Decisions: Book Review
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | September 28, 2011 | Jessie Gruman
Can we have 'evidence-based' care and 'shared decision making'? Are they in concert or in competition with one another? Drs. Pamela Hartzband and Jerome Groopman's new book, Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What is Right for You, argues that a crash is indeed imminent.
Health News: Proceed With Caution
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | September 15, 2011 | Conversation Continues
Recent posts at Health News Review highlight how the over-simplification of medical journalism leads to misinformed, over-treated patients.
Guest Blog: Recovery and Healing
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | August 29, 2011 | Katherine Ellington
Medical student Katherine Ellington grapples with reconciling her two roles as daughter and doctor-in-training as her mother recovers from a heart procedure.
Guest Blog: Summer Palpitations
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | August 15, 2011 | Katherine Ellington
When her mom has a heart emergency, medical student Katherine Ellington learns first-hand how health statistics apply to real life. This is the first in a series of three posts.
Our Preference in Health News: Uncertainty or Naked Ladies?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | July 27, 2011 | Jessie Gruman
News of the World wasn't read by 15 percent of the British public because it told people what they should know. It got there by giving them what they wanted: stories about the peccadilloes of the rich and famous, accounts of the gross incompetence of government and of course, pictures of naked ladies.
Learning About Public Participation
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | September 29, 2010 | Connie Davis
I've been spending time lately becoming more familiar with methods of public participation and the evidence behind participation. When I first moved to British Columbia, the government was sponsoring 'Conversations on Health' which I initially found exciting and innovative. That effort was designed to give the public a voice about health care in the province. I sent in my comments via the website and read about the public meetings being held throughout the province. I became a skeptic when I compared the data and original reports from the conversations and the conclusions. They didn't seem to match.
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