Monthly Archives: May 2014

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  Creating a Healing Relationship Between Patient and Physician

   2 + 2 will always = 4.  But, two people who are dealing with cancer, one a doctor and the other a patient, what do they equal? A healing relationship

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  Keeping Time with the Patient Experience

  As a musician for many years, the idea of “keeping time” was never mysterious — even as a young child. Keeping time meant staying in rhythm, in tempo. In some

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  Reducing Hospital Noise: What Do We Do First?

  Last week I did a webinar for The Center for Health Design on the built environment, patient outcomes, and  hospital noise. I spoke about the two-part patient experience in relationship

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  ICU-Acquired Weakness: Powerlessness in Recovery

  Recently, The New England Journal of Medicine published an article about ICU-acquired weakness. The authors explore the physiological (neurological) outcomes of having an critical illness, being administered strong medications, being intubated, and otherwise

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  Nurses Are Healthcare’s Angels

  If you have ever been a patient in a hospital, you know that the nurse who comes into your room is the hope you have of being pulled from the

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