Monthly Archives: October 2016

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  Encore Post: “Do No Harm” is Not Enough Anymore for Patient Safety

  Note:  This is a popular post from 2014 that is still relevant to the critical issue of patient safety. Florence Nightingale was not only the Mother of Modern Nursing; she also was the

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  Evidence-Based Medicine May Not Always Be Best for the Patient Experience

  Since 1990 when David Sackett first identified Evidence-Based Medicine as a framework to standardize how physicians diagnose and treat their patients, the term has been all but bastardized. Evidence-Based Medicine

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  Pain Management: Life-Supporting or Life-Threatening?

  Without question, pain is the only symptom that crosses all ages, diagnoses, and specialties. One of the best solutions ever developed for pain management was aspirin, followed by every other

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  What’s the Difference Between Patient Satisfaction & Patient Experience?

  When I heard Press Ganey Founder Irwin Press speak many years ago, he offered the perspective of an anthropologist, looking at healthcare as a culture and the factors that inform

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