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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

Why MyChart messages create a challenge for hospital systems So more contact and connection between doctors and patients seems like a good thing, right? But the problem isn’t contact and connection, but rather how we shape and optimize the flow of information between doctor and patient. Absolutely. Pretty simple.

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Corona Together

StorytellERdoc

Being an ER physician facing this dilemma on the front lines of a large emergency and trauma center, I am also bearing witness to the more daunting picture of this dilemma--the mental and physical effects Covid-19 is having on our patients as well as on all of us. And the truth is, I am not sure what to think at this point. Take a walk.

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

In every part of Canada, in every province, there are not enough doctors. In our city of Victoria, for instance, many people do not have a family doctor because so many doctors have retired; those who are left are unable to take new patients because their lists are full. I only wish I had read this article a month ago.