First Day at School, a post from rheumatologist Ronan Kavanagh, sheds some interesting light on our clinic environment. He writes about a picture on the wall of his office. How the picture arrived there and the reaction it draws from patients is worth thinking about and the subject of a bigger discussion. This brief post resonates with me because the accessories ... Continue Reading about The Intentional Clinic Environment
Doctors, Patients, Old and New
There’s this tension that I pick up on when I talk with patients. It’s the fantasy of the new and the old. It’s the fantasy of the physician encounter where a doctor will look at us and never to a screen. We insist on all of the affordances of the digital age with the human connection of a time gone by. We want an intensely human connection but we want ... Continue Reading about Doctors, Patients, Old and New
Analog Discipline
This story by Iltifat Hussain over at iMedicalApps is worth a peek. Apparently he had given his medical student brother an iPad for his clinical clerkships. He went on to receive an unfavorable evaluation by an attending for being 'too dependent on his iPad during rounds.' I wonder what this attending was trying to teach him. I suspect he comes from a ... Continue Reading about Analog Discipline
Health 2.0 Houston and the Changing Face of Medicine
The following represents a rough narrative of my opening remarks at the launch of Health 2.0 Houston, January 29th, 2013 Let me be the first to welcome everyone to the launch of Health 2.0 Houston. This is a huge night for the Houston medical community and anyone concerned with the future of health care. Congratulations to Brian Lang and Laura Shapland for ... Continue Reading about Health 2.0 Houston and the Changing Face of Medicine
An English Prof and a Pediatrician Walk into a Bar…
Today marked the first class of Medicine in the Age of Networked Intelligence, a Rice University course (English 278) that I’m co-teaching with my Medical Futures Lab partner-in-crime, Kirsten Ostherr, PhD. Our course examines how developments in mobile, social, personal and global health are transforming research, communication, and medical practice. Topics of ... Continue Reading about An English Prof and a Pediatrician Walk into a Bar…
The Public Absence of Pre-Meds
I was struck by this tweet from Roheet Kakaday, a premed student. It followed a brief thread about the rehearsed presence of the med school applicant and the potential role of a digital life stream/portfolio. Roheet is someone worth looking at. He writes on his blog, The Biopsy, where he sticks his neck out to connect his ideas with the world (beautiful site ... Continue Reading about The Public Absence of Pre-Meds