Monthly Archives: March 2016

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  The Patient Experience: When We Accept the Unacceptable

  My mother hated the word tolerance, especially when it came to race. She would say, “To tolerate is not to respect. It is ‘to put up with.’” I am in

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  Bhutan: Universal Healthcare and Gross National Happiness

  Is healthcare (1) a human right, (2) a privilege, (3) a commodity, (4) a luxury, (5) a public utility, (6) a targeted market, (7) a service industry?  Is a sick

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  How Does the Hospital Room Support the Patient Experience?

  A patient is admitted to a hospital room. Next to everything that happens — the tests, admission processes, many unknown people who continually enter and ask questions, the hospital room is her first entrance

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• Music for the Elderly: The Dark Side of Nostalgia

  The neurological benefits of music for the elderly with dementia have been well documented. The phenomenon of elderly stroke patients with aphasia (not being able to speak, but being able

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