Liberating Structures for Enduring Culture Change: A Disruptive Innovation (part 2)
This is Part 2 of a two-part post featuring how Liberating Structures (LS) have been applied to cultural change efforts and to prevent the transmission of superbugs. Part 1 featured Dr. Michael Gardam and…
So That’s How Exercise Burns Calories
Ever since I was a child I was frustrated when I got incomplete answers to my, I’d like to think, probing questions. Why is the sky blue? Did you get a…
The Cookie-Cutter Medicine Fallacy
By Michael Halpern(The following is reprinted from the Health Affairs blog) By Michael Halpern(The following is reprinted from the Health Affairs blog)About a year ago, some medical symptoms that I’ve…
TEXTING, NOT SMOKING
Few of our patients at Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center smoke tobacco, but the majority are 'consistent' and 'heavy' marijuana smokers. In fact, it's pretty unusual to have a patient…
Facebook Portal “RegisterPatient” Allows for Secure Patient-Physician Communications
According to the press release it is HIPAA compliant and allows for private conversations between patients and doctors. It doesn’t cost anything for patients but is any of the information…
MRI Intervention’s Clearpoint Technology: The Future of MRI-Guided Surgery?
Editor’s Note: OneMedPlace will be offering Special Reports on especially significant developments from emerging growth companies. The first of these reports focuses on MRI Intervention, the maker of MRI…
3 Reasons Doctors Make Poor Leaders and What You Can Do About It
Physician Leadership – Why Doctors Make Poor Leaders and What YOU Can Do About ItOne of the big practice challenges most of us face is a frustrating gap in…
Why did WellPoint buy 1-800-Contacts?
Some folks are scratching their heads over health insurer WellPoint’s plan to spend $900 million to buy 1-800-Contacts, a retailer of eyeglasses and contact lenses. The decision is not really…
What is Interventional Radiology?
“Huh?? What do you do? What’s that?” Those are the usual responses we get when people find out we are Interventional Radiology nurses. Not many people, including other nurses really…
Can Mindfulness Improve the Odds of Recovering from Cancer?
In the 1970’s, Ainsley Meares, M.D., an Australian psychiatrist provided documented case studies of 73 of his cancer patients. Five of those patients went into full remission just by practicing…
