Monthly Archives: September 2015

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  Encore Post: ICU-Acquired Weakness – Powerlessness in Recovery

  Note:  A busy week, so no new post, but enjoy this encore of one of my most-read posts from 2014. Recently, The New England Journal of Medicine published an article about ICU-acquired weakness. The

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  What Medication Cannot Do for Patient Pain and Suffering

  “Do you hurt?” asks the bear to the mouse. “No. Not body hurt. But, my fear hurts,” says the mouse. “Does fear bleed?” asks the bear. “Yea…but the blood of

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  5 Ways To Be More Present for Your Patients

  Since recorded music was introduced, we have been able to capture a single performance of music forever, assuming that every time we listen to the recording, we hear the same

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  The Patient Experience As a Work of Art

  How many ways do we try to quantify and qualify the patient experience? HCAHPS and other satisfaction surveys are far from exact or even understandable.  We cannot fully understand or easily

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