I always loved to type. It started in high school with typing class. We were told that typing was critical for college term papers. I liked it so much that I took advanced typing. It was myself and 12 girls with Farrah Fawcett hair. Heaven. Fast forward to 2011. My interface with the medical record is my fingers. Most of my communication flows through my ... Continue Reading about Typing as a Critical Physician Skill
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Rage Against the Machine
I was in an elevator at Texas Children's Hospital this weekend where there were a number of people looking at their smart phones. An older gentleman in the elevator remarked shaking his head, "I remember a time when people used to talk." Actually, no one talked in elevators. We've always stood the same direction and stared at the numbers at the top of the ... Continue Reading about Rage Against the Machine
Cut and Paste Medicine
I saw it begin to happen in the '90's. Residents came to rounds with their daily notes produced on a word processor. The notes were impressive. Legible, lengthy and meticulously detailed at first glance. Then I started to notice a pattern. The impressive notes began to look very much alike. The thorough exam varied little from patient to patient. And ... Continue Reading about Cut and Paste Medicine
Health Care Silos
Fragmented connectivity was a recurring theme at the Stanford Summit/Medicine 2.0 Congress. Everyone's working on a solution to connect doctors with doctors - a doctors silo. Patients have been connecting for some time. But no one has figured out how to allow doctors and patients to connect in a meaningful way. There are lots of EHR applications but few are ... Continue Reading about Health Care Silos
Psychomanipulation and Social Health
Last week Michael Arrington wrote an important piece in Techcrunch, Blogging and Mass Psychomanipulation. It details how as bloggers we play to our readers for positive regard. We give ‘em red meat. I think there’s social health psychomanipulation. Many of us indulge the obvious social health memes. We universally bash pharma, blindly buoy the empowered, blame the ... Continue Reading about Psychomanipulation and Social Health