Several friends sent me a link to an article that I had already seen. It’s upsetting but not surprising. the title of the article is “Serious Medical Errors Rose After Private Equity Firms Bought Hospitals”. You can find the article here. The title of the article pretty much tells you all that you need to…
Month: December 2023
Maintaining Competancy in Healthcare
The time to train to become a physician is considerable. Medical school, residency, sometime adding a fellowship. It’s a lot. The challenge then, is how to we maintain that level of competency as we spend years and years in practice. Many clinicians spend considerable time taking care of their patients and over time it can…
Improving Patient Safety and Team Communication Through Daily Huddles
I have talked previously about team communication and some structured ways for teams to communicate better. I want to discuss an article titled “Improving Patient Safety and Team Communication Through Daily Huddles,” available at this link. This article does a nice job describing the importance of something like a daily huddle as an effective strategy…
Difficult Times for Those in Health Care
The issue of burnout has been of concern within a variety of professions, including health care. There have been changes made in the training of young physicians to restrict the number of hours they can work at a time. More time off has also been added. Efforts to manage work-life balance have been more considered…