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Bathrooms “R” Us

Physician's Practice

This may cause you to question the airline’s attention to details like engine maintenance or losing passenger’s luggage. I refer to this thought transference as the Bathroom Experience (BE), a powerful metaphor for how seemingly minor details can dramatically impact patients’ perceptions of a medical practice. But a dirty one?

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Episode 188: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 10 – Counterspaces in Medicine: Creating Safe Spaces and Redefining Value

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Uché Blackstock Self-sacrifice is not the highest virtue: Medicine is its own subculture where people are expected to make sacrifices of their time, personal and family life, and finances in order to demonstrate that they are good physicians. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2021. Blackstock, U. N Engl J Med.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. Eric: I’m going to push you on that. What does that look like? It’s just these clicks.

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