Editor’s note: This week, we offer an Encore Presentation about a 2015 Sherman Award finalist. Our panel of judges has been spending time digging into this year’s cadre of nominations and will be meeting soon to select the 2017 winner. We take this moment to thank all of you who are doing work focused on […]
Emotions are messy. No one taught me about that in medical school; I thought only psychiatrists had to deal with emotions. I was going to be an internist; I’d only have to deal with emotions if something really bad happened. Not that anyone taught me how to cope with the really bad stuff. In my […]
The patient safety movement and efforts to honor patients’ preferences emphasize the importance of skillful communication on the part of physicians and other clinicians. Less attention has been paid to the effect of patients’ communication skills. In addition to catching errors, patients can use effective communication skills to improve their health and the medical services […]
Editor’s Note: This is Part II of Setting the Standard for Engaging and Activating Patients detailing a new standard for communication Dr. Scaletta and his team created to improve patient engagement at every touch point. My healthcare system closed calendar year 2015 on a high note. We trained 7,000 employees and medical staff across our […]
Patient engagement is interpreted in many different ways, much like the old proverb, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This subjective interpretation presents healthcare with a challenge because there are great expectations associated with the term. Patient engagement has even been called a “blockbuster drug” for healthcare’s ills—a very big expectation indeed! Evidence […]
With the clean and bloody bandages whipping in the wind, the passers-by recognized the establishment of the barber-surgeon, who could pull a tooth or leach blood from the patient, as well cut hair and a hangnail. The white and red rags gave way to the iconic barber pole still in use today. The barber-surgeons’ work […]