‘Mountains Beyond Mountains’

Tracy Kidder book helps explain motivations of doctors who practice international ‘relief’ medicine With my busy schedule, I don’t have much time to sit down and read, so when I am able to do that, it is precious for me. I’ve just finished Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains, subtitled "The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, […]

Academic Medicine 70 Percent There On Lifespan Planning

Boston’s Ken Mandl and Issac Kohane in an NEJM “must-read” Doctors Ken Mandl and Issac Kohane of the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard–Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Children’s Hospital Boston; and the Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School — both in Boston, have written a "must-read" article […]

Medicines in the Medicine Cabinet

Protecting your family and the environmentIt’s hard to know these days just what to do with the old medicines in your medicine cabinet. It seems one way or another, they’re a threat to other human beings. Recently we learned that if you throw them out, and especially if you flush them down the toilet, they […]

Access Excellence

Nurturing as an anecdote to bullying This week’s program on bullying in our nation’s schools has touched a vein and drawn an immediate response from young and old alike. The damage done by bullying extends into the future. The messages I received reinforced that disconnection and anger and despair are predictable byproducts of lives absent […]

School Bullies

The damage they do is serious and long-lastingRecently the problem of school bullying reared its ugly head. The airwaves featured a youngster in Arkansas, progressively and deliberately isolated, abused, tormented and damaged. The problem is large, complex and pervasive, according to the American Medical Association. How large a problem? A 2001 study of nearly 16,000 […]

Knowledge Like Clear, Clean Water

The Chief Knowledge Officer of Britain’s National Health Service, Sir Muir Gray, on Health Care’s ProgressOver the last year or so, I’ve written a lot about how health care information will become increasingly available to consumers and health care business, and how this access will drive new decision-support capabilities that will profoundly change how health […]

Influenza Update

Bird Flu is still a concern Flu season this year hasn’t exactly played by the rules. Its second wind nationwide may be beginning to wind down. Experts say some of this is related to the effectiveness of this year’s vaccine. HHS and all of its various divisions expend a huge amount of time, effort and […]

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