This is my 4th year participating in the Engage with Grace blog rally. Engage With Grace is a movement designed to help advance the conversation about the end-of-life experience. It began with a simple idea: Create a tool to get people talking. Their tool is a slide with five questions designed to initiate dialog about our end-of-life preferences. Having lost my ... Continue Reading about Engage with Grace – Again, and Again, and Again
Medicine’s Emerging Digital Culture
I suspect that we'll see a real digital culture emerge surrounding doctors and medicine. One centered on a new mindset and workflow, created with new tools. At one point we were only seen in fluorescent lit offices with stethoscopes. The AMA and the public affairs messengers in our local hospital decided what we understood about doctors. Not any more. We are ... Continue Reading about Medicine’s Emerging Digital Culture
Social Feed Misperception
I Skyped in recently to the School of Medicine at the University of California Irvine to talk to the students about digital medicine. Trends, new media, the future, etc. It was a great time with some motivated students in a program initiated by Dr. Warren Wiechmann. When it came time for questions, a student took the mike reported that he had reviewed my Twitter ... Continue Reading about Social Feed Misperception
Tweetiatricians
Last weekend at the American Academy of Pediatrics a new term was spawned to describe pediatricians using Twitter: tweetiatrician. Throughout the course of the meeting it was used in the busy back channel happening in New Orleans. In a giddy moment of herd camaraderie I adopted it on my Twitter bio. In the days that followed some critical dialog emerged ... Continue Reading about Tweetiatricians
Why We Love Abraham Verghese
A Professor at Stanford, Abraham Verghese believes that physicians have strayed too far from the patient. We’ve become wrapped up in numbers and machines such that we’ve lost sight of the patient. I admit to being captivated by Verghese’s message. I heard him speak at Stanford’s Medicine 2.0 in 2011 where he discussed the ritual of contact between the doctor and ... Continue Reading about Why We Love Abraham Verghese
The Medical Futures Lab is Now
Medicine is in the midst of a shift never before seen. Information and technology are advancing at rates faster than our ability to adapt. The physician of 2050 will think and work in a way that can only be imagined by the current generation. But we’re completely unprepared to deal with what lies ahead. That’s because medicine has traditionally focused on what ... Continue Reading about The Medical Futures Lab is Now