Showing posts with label Atul Gawande. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Atul Gawande. Show all posts

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Just because...

As I mentioned in the previous post, reading Atul Gawande's Being Mortal should be a must, wherever you are in health care. A doctor from a family of doctors with a hospice experience of his own was just another example from which we can learn. I stayed up late last night just to finish it.

Want to know how to get your medical records? It might be a perilous journey! Check out this post from HIStalk. You don't have to be a health care informatics genius to see how crazy this can be. You have rights. If you local hospital HIM department tramples them, be sure to contact the nice people responsible for enforcing HIPAA compliance.

Finally, I saw this link on a blog I read. I could not believe it; however, having been in an ER within the last few months, I do now wonder.

It's almost February, so you can guarantee, I will GoRedforWomen. This bad attitude has to stop.

More to come...enjoy the remaining moments of this weekend, wherever you are!

Thursday, January 28, 2016

So eloquently said

While I haven't posted a RehabRN reading list lately, I'm still reading. Right now, I'm really getting into Atul Gawande's Being Mortal. It's a story about living, moving on, assisted living, aging and dying.

The stories are really vivid and I can just about picture the folks they are discussing in front of me.

There are so many things we need to learn about aging, death, and dying.

Stay tuned.