How and why we repeatedly do the WRONG thing when nurses call us about blood pressure readings. And how to fix it.

How “6-foot circles” can keep us from discussing health care effectively with the people around us

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

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” Hospital discharge summaries have always been the awkward epilogue of the patient’s inpatient journey—something between a clinical record, a legal form, and a lengthy regurgitation of disconnected items from within the chart. Traditionally, they’ve been authored by overworked residents […]

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

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.

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

How did we come to this point? The core job of a provider is to deliver safe, convenient, less expensive high-quality health care.

The ultimate goal of a health care provider is to keep an individual and community healthy.

“Maybe the world has really changed even more than we thought, or at least more than I thought”

Rarely do I come across an article in a leading medical journal discussing a subject so seemingly unrelated to the practice of medicine as one dealing with “official torture techniques”.

The Moonshot – 50 Years Later and Doing It Again

Diabetes care for hospitalized patients – easy? complicated? important? Yes, yes, and yes.

How to measure care quality? Answer with another question – is it the care you would want your mother to get?

Communication and information exchange are high priorities. Electronics make this process better and smoother.

Bombshell from Medicare to revolutionize E&M coding

It’s time to look at our COPD mortality rates and see what we are doing right and what we can do better

What Recent Journal Article Was Rated A “Duh”? A “Good Duh” for a change – Time Out from onerous regulations.

What lesson does Cool Hand Luke have for us about today? It’s all about communication.

Our biggest organ – the skin – needs our biggest focus. Concensus is we are not giving it all the attention it needs

New blog from Ed Stehlik. Musings on – and lessons from – the end of live CME at Kenmore Mercy Hospital