splash’em log- April is National African-American Women’s Fitness Month April 7, 2011It’s spring and time to think about new beginnings. National African-American Women’s Fitness Month encourages black women to think about the risks of a sedentary lifestyle and the benefits of activity and good nutrition. The idea is to incorporate fun … Continue reading → […]splashem
- Enforcing Patient Privacy Regulations January 19, 2011University Medical Center – Tucson is receiving intense media scrutiny as it cares for the victims of the January 8 shootings as well as its routine patient population. Despite this extra stress, it demonstrates successful administration of federal and state … Continue reading → […]splashem
- No One Cares As Much About Your Body As You Do January 4, 2011The key player in any health care scenario is the patient. Not the highly rated hospital, the internationally famous expert, the newest drug. A passive patient is a patient at risk. This seems burdensome to someone who is gravely ill … Continue reading → […]splashem
- April is National African-American Women’s Fitness Month April 7, 2011
Category Archives: health
Beethoven’s Reimbursable Healing
Patients have recognized for millenia that music heals the body as well as the soul. Current American health care requires treatments to be evidence-based; they must be recognized by the scientific community as valid therapeutic tools based on rigorous research … Continue reading
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Palliative Care ≠ Dying!
Once again palliative care is in the media. Once again the distinction between hospice or end-of-life care and palliative care is not made. Palliative care is provided to relieve and soothe the symptoms of a disease or disorder. It can … Continue reading
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Patient Safety Starts With Clean Hands
Yes, there’s another report that patient safety has not improved since the publication of “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” in 1999 by the Institute of Medicine. (See New England Journal of Medicine “Temporal Trends in Rates of Patient Harm … Continue reading