This is a story about today.   So you’re a patient. You’ve been waiting a long, long time. This place never gets better. Even though this is “your appointment” and “your day”, despite knowing that the doctors are so, so nice — wonderful, really – you find yourself cringing at the unmistakable “busy” in [...]

  “Geography is destiny in medicine.” –Jack Lord, MD In my undergrad English lit courses, I heard a lot about “character is destiny”. Which is a fancy way of blowing things out of proportion – e.g., Romeo and Juliet didn’t die via the quality of being “star-crossed”, but because they were super emo. Well, this [...]

The success of electronic medical records (EMR) depends on much more than the EMR itself, but intuitive, smart software is still important. In this post (Merry Christmas!), I will talk about one tough issue in particular, the search problem, and why a “finder” like Google Wave (June, November) might be a good idea. Larger electronic [...]

  Dr. Vartabedian (@Doctor_V) recently posted about the pre-emptive strike delivered by a patient’s mother as DrV was trying to explain the condition. The weapon? Google! I recently discussed endoscopic biopsy results with a patient’s mother. Her child had inflammation in the upper intestinal tract with cells called eosinophils. As I began to explain the [...]

  By now many of us know about Google Wave and have watched the truly epic introductory video. I won’t try to summarize the OMG!PONIES effect – you’ve got to see it to believe it. What I will say is this: Wave has been framed as the technology that could kill email, IM, photo/music/video sharing, [...]