When I saw the Earn Your Stripe Campaign encouraging all health care providers to get a flu vaccine, I knew it was a great idea. And your Partners In Pediatrics are 100% protected. We live by example! Preventing influenza has a public health champion in the folks at the CDC, and they have made it a point […]
Years ago, I received a card from one of the families in my practice with a sentiment expressed by Edith Wharton that made me think of TEDMED as I packed my suitcase for the conference … As I headed off to Washington, DC for an opportunity to sit with some of the most creative thinkers […]
With all the discussion in the media today of technology in health care, it’s an alphabet soup of things I understand, but how about you? EMR, PMR… data management, tracking all kinds of health data, and you guessed it: there’s an app for that! As a working mother with a Smartphone, I can tell you […]
“I think Dr. Smith should have a reality TV show.” Really, why? “Because she’s so smart and people could learn some of the stuff she knows.” What kind of reality show would it be? “Well, she could have pretend customers (Rose, some people call them health care consumers), “and they could come in and share their […]
I love classical music. I love lots of different styles of music, actually. People who find my taste in music interesting are the ones who have whittled things down to minds that have a preference for right brain or left brain thinking. My left brain: it’s organized, methodical, standing in straight lines with all the laundry sorted, washed, […]
I am watching the health care reform debate unfold in front of me, and today I found someone who explained it in a way that I could truly understand. The political machine means well. At least I hope it does. I had the opportunity to hear Marian Wright-Edleman, founder of the Children’s Defense Fund speak recently in Washington, […]