Blogs about: The Patient Experience
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Spoons and Swine
This is something that gets passed around communities of folks with rare/chronic diseases. It’s well worth the read, since most of us will cross paths with someone with a chronic illness at some… more →
The Convalescing Orphan
Treatment is not in a vacuum
wrote 1 week ago: How can we create the best environment for treatment? A phrase I often use with patients is ‘n … more →
CST’s MediCall pager system helps Liverpool Heart & Chest patients relax
wrote 3 weeks ago: Patients often arrive at the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital with relatives and friends. As a fri … more →
The Ritz Experiment: How consistency wins every time!
wrote 4 months ago: Healthcare organizations of all sizes must start realizing that the customer experience is much, muc … more →
"The Power of We" Is Critical for Optimizing Healing Healthcare
wrote 5 months ago: Reblogged from quantum shifting: Interesting what can spark an idea and create insight. Staring at … more →
Welcome to Opulence Medical Consulting
wrote 5 months ago: The current health care climate calls for a marriage between medicine and creativity. The good … more →
Solving GP education dilemmas
wrote 1 year ago: Christine Jorm’s piece in MJA Insight: Solving GP Education Dilemmas, addresses an issue that … more →
Polly's first guest blog
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wrote 1 year ago: Possibly less exciting than ‘baby’s first tooth’ or in our case perhaps Tiny Cat 2 … more →
Reflection on society and the state of the patient experience
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wrote 1 year ago: How do we treat the old and vulnerable in our hospitals? To me, the mark of any civilisation is how … more →
Spoons and Swine
wrote 3 years ago: This is something that gets passed around communities of folks with rare/chronic diseases. It’ … more →
As is confession
wrote 3 years ago: In spite of having a file of posts stacked up like planes above O’Hare, there was a notable si … more →
Medicare for many
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wrote 3 years ago: Reading about the current proposals floating around out there, my heart sank. I spent much of last n … more →
The whys and hows of self-care.
wrote 3 years ago: If there is one thing we folks with chronic/rare diseases do well it’s self care. Sometimes it … more →
Why health care co-ops are not the answer
wrote 3 years ago: I am a strong proponent of a public option. My preference, for feasibility and affordability, would … more →
"....You don't have that kind of pain!"
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wrote 3 years ago: As a person dealing with chronic pain, the debate over pain medication drives me nuts. Being a perso … more →
I said there's no swelling....
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wrote 3 years ago: They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This one, shocking though it is, doesn’t begin t … more →
Profit: 1 Orphans: 0
wrote 3 years ago: I went googling for information on how Sen. Baucus’s proposed health care reforms might possi … more →
The devil you know
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wrote 3 years ago: One of the latest trends I’m finding in trying to get Kaiser to do something, anything to deal … more →
