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 the air.
We’re two hours behind schedule, you hear someone whisper from behind a pulled curtain, and you start to feel foolish.
Maybe you shouldn’t ask this question, …
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“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 week, I watched a TED talk by Bill Davenhall (below) that claimed “geography is destiny”.
This idea is not so exaggerated. Just watch it (9 min.):
What it says: …
Dec
24
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 record projects may show us what’s needed.
Yesterday, I read an article (National Post) on MyLifeBits, a kind of Electronic “Life” Record. Since 1998, Gordon Bell, a …
Jul
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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 basics of tummy irritation and the significance of the eosinophils in her daughter’s duodenum she cut me off, “Actually doctor, you don’t need to go into too …
Jun
22
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, and more; and it has also been getting quite a bit of attention for its potential to become the quintessential collaborative tool in science and medicine.
Cameron Neylon …
