Patient Satisfaction Starts With Physician Satisfaction: Making Sense of the Missed Obvious
December 14, 2018
Over the past few blogs I have written about the interaction of the physician and the patient. I have also discussed that physician satisfaction is the force that drives the practice of medicine. I am hoping that I have made a strong case for the topic today. But what is exactly the “missed obvious?” Source:…Read More
Code Trauma & Cognitive Errors
December 7, 2018
[3 MIN READ] The risks we face as acute care practitioners are not static—they evolve over time. Just as we master the approach to a longstanding high-risk problem, a new risky patient presentation rears its head to challenge us. Consider ectopic pregnancy. Now that we routinely obtain pregnancy tests on all women from age 10…Read More
Newborn Identification: A National Patient Safety Initiative
November 30, 2018
[3 MIN READ] Correct patient identification has long been at the top of the list regarding safety. A recent TSG article by Dr. Tom Syzek entitled “Medical Errors, Communication, Teamwork and End of Life: Lessons from Angola” speaks to the importance of correct patient identification and the safety implications surrounding it. This article dovetails nicely…Read More
Physician Satisfaction: The Alpha & Omega of Medicine!
November 23, 2018
“I just wish they would let us be doctors.” These words came from the mouth of my colleague while we were working together in the emergency department one night. He was sharing his frustrations with his scribe at the time, lamenting the nostalgic and romantic idea of having the freedom to practice as a physician!…Read More
Strategies to Reduce Harm from Opioid Prescribing & Abuse
November 14, 2018
9 MIN READ I certainly don’t pretend to have the answer to the question of how to eliminate the opioid epidemic. There are legislative, regulatory and policy issues far greater than any one of us, but what can the medical community do? This was the call to action by Stephen Stack, President of the AMA,…Read More
Opioid Prescribing & Liability Trends
November 9, 2018
[5 MIN READ] In a recent blog entitled “The Opioid Crisis: Far From Over,” I reviewed the genesis, magnitude and impact of the opioid crisis in America. Now I will switch gears a bit and look at the trends in the liability of opioid prescribing. Civil Liabilities First there’s civil liability, which can and does…Read More
The Opioid Crisis: Far from Over
October 31, 2018
[12 MIN READ] For the past two decades, the U.S. has experienced alarming rates of opioid use, misuse, abuse, and overdose deaths, and we are now ground zero for the opioid epidemic. This epidemic is rife with risks for patients, practitioners, insurers, healthcare organizations, communities, and our entire society. This is the first article in…Read More
Medical Errors, Communication, Teamwork, and the End-of-Life: Lessons from Angola
October 24, 2018
(adapted with permission from the original by Dr. Tim Kubacki at https://kubackisinangola.com/) Dr. Tom Syzek: These days we hear so much about the importance of communication and teamwork in avoiding medical errors and how we deliver care at the end of life, I thought for perspective, I would share this case presentation from Dr. Tim…Read More
How to Engage Nurses in Your Training Program
October 17, 2018
Education is a vital to your department’s ongoing clinical performance improvement plans. But the presence of a plan alone isn’t the change catalyst. Through our twenty years of working with large health systems across the country, we have seen that facilities that successfully engage their staff in a new training program have a much higher…Read More
A Good Shift is a Choice
October 8, 2018
Adapted from an original blog by Paul Culler, MD Source: Hubspot
