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The Tongue is mightier than the sword

Some of the bad words and phrases we hear too often in healthcare – and the damage they can do

“The Goat Rodeo”

While the more overt consequences—vaccine refusal, slowed outbreak response, weakened emergency stockpiles—are already the subject of widespread concern, there are more subtle avenues through which this “goat rodeo” undermines public health.

“Discharging the (Old) Discharge Summary: How AI is Rewriting the Last Chapter of the Hospital Stay”

by Edward Stehlik, MD

“Discharging the (Old) Discharge Summary: How AI is Rewriting the Last Chapter of the Hospital Stay” Hospital discharge summaries have always been the awkward epilogue of the patient’s inpatient journey—something between a...

How To Reduce CHF Readmissions

by Edward Stehlik, MD

Reducing readmission rates, with a particular focus on Congestive Heart Failure, which is our index disease process due for this effort to its frequency, complexity, and high rates of both mortality and readmissions.

All That Wheezes is Not Asthma

by Edward Stehlik, MD

Translating a physical finding or a symptom directly into a diagnosis truly tests the skill and expertise of physicians and other providers.

Open The Portal

by Edward Stehlik, MD

Patient portals – changing the dynamic of who gets results first and what you can and can’t say in your notes.

Failure of heart care in our care of heart failure

by Edward Stehlik, MD

In the last several years with a mixture of old and new medications that are effective individually and synergistically effective when used in combination. They are referred to as the 4 pillars of medical management of CHF.

Echos of Failure or Failure of Echos

by Edward Stehlik, MD

Congestive heart failure has been on our front burner for a long time, for both inpatient and outpatient care, and for good reason.

Goodbye, Tommie

by Edward Stehlik, MD

April 11, 2021 – A piece of America died today with the passing of Tom Raab as he left his beloved Mercy Hospital for the last time attended by an escort of his family and so many of his bereaved friends.

Tell me I’m fat – Please

by Edward Stehlik, MD

It has very recently become a daily occurrence to have patients calling me apparently now happy to be listed as obese.

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