Stop the bullying in health care / Physicians will rise to take back the bedside

--------------------------------------------------------------- Here are the stories you missed on KevinMD. Thank you for your continuing readership. --------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsors [Secure communications in health care: Do you know all your options?] Good security is important when it comes to personal health information, along with the imperative for easy, constant, and mobile communication among health care professionals and organizations. [Read the eBrief now]. [Is your hospital communication system trapped in the dark ages?] Just like a medieval page boy, pagers are annoying and inefficient. This leads to delayed patient care, frustrated providers, and potential HIPAA breaches. Learn why you need to ditch your [Page Boy] today. "The most important patient safety program in 15 years": How the [CANDOR Toolkit helps doctors and hospitals do the right thing in the right way] -- and why disclosure after adverse events can [reduce physician liability]. [Video]: See how your staff can protect sensitive information with a variety of devices that offer flexibility, convenience and security, including smartphones, tablets, and pagers. [Watch the video]. --------------------------------------------------------------- KevinMD Today: Sep. 1, 2016 [Physicians will rise to take back the bedside] Art explains medicine by explaining human needs. In December of 2015, Dr. Michael P. Jones wrote a piece that had 27K shares: “We’ve killed the way physicians should be.” It is interpreted that 27K readers or more identified with what Dr. Jones wrote. In his essay, he claimed the identity of a physician was being […] [Instead of training more doctors, why don’t we keep the ones we have now?] In an article from the Pew Charitable Trusts, an upcoming scarcity of OB/GYNs in the U.S. is predicted with a potential shortage of 22,000 OB/GYNs by the year 2050. Reasons given for the shortage are a growing population, female OB/GYNs retiring early and working part-time, residents entering sub-specialties and changing physician attitudes about work-life balance. […] [We are nurses: Stop the bullying in health care] The surgeon is doing a tonsillectomy on a 4-year-old boy. Dr. Jones drops an instrument on the floor of the OR. The instrument is now contaminated and has to be sterilized by a special machine called an autoclave. This was a small hospital, so they did not have a large inventory of duplicate surgical instruments. […] [A failure in transition of care] Alvion Barr had a four-month delay in his diagnosis. He is technically a patient of my colleague. But he had drifted between two of our regular doctors and a locum tenens physician we hired to work during March, when both other doctors were on vacation. I saw him late Thursday afternoon for a rash, but he […] [Summer vacation as a retired physician] Like all children, I looked forward to July and August. It was a magical time I daydreamed about through the winter months. Summer was a time of endless possibilities. No school, no deadlines, no stress. The dreaded alarm clock was banished to the night table drawer. With no homework due, no papers to be written, […] [Jess Jacobs: Thank you for what you taught me] I never knew Jess Jacobs, and she never knew me. Everything I know about her I have learned from her Twitter feed, her website, and articles written about her. She was the same age as me when she died recently. She was educated. She knew the health care system inside and out, as an expert […] [Why are ERs so busy? It’s really no surprise.] If the emergency room is the most expensive place to receive health care, then why are more patients visiting the ER than ever before? There are no local doctors’ offices that can charge $1,000 to put a Band-Aid on your finger or $8,000 to tell you that your abdominal pain is due to drinking too much […] [How the power of song connected me with a patient] She smiled fetchingly and threw her arms around me. She was so happy to have someone to hug. She was large, obese, kyphotic and almost bent double while edging slowly with her walker toward the examining room. She had sent a Christmas card and a birthday card, and I thanked her for them, while secretly […] [To the doctors struggling with depression: You are not alone] By the end of my first year of residency, I knew I was in trouble. I was overwhelmed by the 15-hour days, the unbearable sadness of the tragedies I witnessed, my feelings of impotence and my fears of making a mistake. My life was my work, and everything else seemed to be falling apart: my […] [A wonderful hour of being a real doctor] Sometimes the business plan completely falls apart. I look at my clock; it’s 11 a.m., and I only have two patients remaining for the morning? Something must be wrong. Every fail safe measure to keep the assembly line going must have failed. The initial card with the appointment time to carry in the wallet? Failed. […] [Can we break the cycle of chronic pain in patients following orthopedic injury?] A guest column by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, exclusive to KevinMD.com. “You are the only one who truly understands your own pain.” As one trauma survivor from the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore told us: “The pain is with you 24/7. It is nonstop. And that is the hard part, you cannot escape […] [What kind of doctor do you want to be? Think about it.] “A doctor’s mission should not be just to prevent death, but to improve the quality of life. You treat a disease, you win-you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.” – Patch Adams (1998) It’s that time of year where everyone begins residency applications, and you commonly hear […] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Follow on Facebook] | [Twitter] --------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the KevinMD e-newsletter. If a friend sent you this email and you want to subscribe, go to [KevinMD]. --------------------------------------------------------------- 173 Daniel Webster Highway Nashua, New Hampshire 03062 [Unsubscribe] | [Change Subscriber Options]