December 30th, 2011 by RamonaBatesMD in Medblogger Shout Outs, Medical Art
Tags: Alzheimer's, Asystole, Birth, Bloggers, Blogging, CBC Today, Death, doctorblackbear, ImpactedEDNurse, Intellectual Disability, JordanGrumet, Medicine, Skeleton Typogram, The Boerewors Emergency Medicine Chronicles
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The Boerewors Emergency Medicine Chronicles has a great post which I think is worth your time: On alzheimer’s
……..…I think it is beautifully written and provides a real window into the difficulty of loving someone who has this disease.
“The thing with this sentence, this arrest of dementia, is that its greatest victims aren’t those who have it. That’s not to say that the diagnosis isn’t dreadful for the recipient, but there is a peculiar and particular hammering sadness for those that love and care for an Alzheimer’s spouse or parent.
It is a wearying and lonely obligation, but with the added cruelty that the person you’re looking after vanishes, escapes before your eyes. In the end, you’re caring for the case that someone came in………”
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Check out this post from @JordanGrumet who blogs at In My Humble Opinion: From Birth To Death Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Suture for a Living*
December 7th, 2011 by Berci in Medical Art
Tags: Gastroenterology, Hemorrhoids, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Venn Diagram, Visualization
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It’s quite clear not everyone would like to read long medical reports and text as sometimes a well-designed and structured graph can say more than a hundred words. Do you remember the Wired article about the blood test makeover that described how our blood test results would be designed to show more easily understandable information to patients?
Well, this Venn diagram shows many things about hemorrhoids and related symptoms. And it’s not even a new infographics published on a blog but is from an old textbook which means the concept has been there for a long time but it always disappears in medicine.
*This blog post was originally published at ScienceRoll*
September 8th, 2011 by StevenWilkinsMPH in Medical Art, Opinion
Tags: Clinical Skills, Communication, Competency, Doctor Patient Relationship, Empathy, Engagement, High Quality Outcomes, Infographic, Low Malpractice Risk, Medication Adherence, Patient Compliance, Patient Satisfaction, Patient Trust, Self-disclosure, Trust
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Often the simplest solutions to problems are the best. So it would seem when it comes to the impact that increasing patient trust in physicians could have on many of the intractable challenges that face the health care industry everyday like non-adherence, lack of involvement, poor health status, dissatisfaction and so on.
I explore the link between patient trust and outcomes in the following infographic I curated and designed. What surprised me is how a patient’s level of trust in their doctor, like so much of what I talk about in this blog, boils downs to the patient’s perception of the physician’s ability to communicate: Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Mind The Gap*
September 6th, 2011 by Shadowfax in Humor, Medical Art
Tags: Anti-science views, Chiropractic, Comic Strip, Darryl Cunningham, David Palmer, Funny, Humor, Mixers, Multipanel Cartoon, Reformers, Straights
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Darryl Cunningham has a lovely detailed explication of the state of chiropractic “medicine,” in a multipanel cartoon format!
Worth clicking through to see the whole thing.
*This blog post was originally published at Movin' Meat*
