October 2008
25 posts
Key Clinical Considerations on Tube Feeding for... →
This document, prepared by the Supportive Care Coalition, is the best I’ve read dealing with the issue of Tube Feeding / Artificial Nutrition & Hydration (ANH).
It is crucial reading for anyone wanting to understand the current controversy and it is especially relevant in light of the USCCB meeting scheduled for next month.
Covering Everyone and Rationing Care →
Healthcare for all? Yes.
How much healthcare should everyone receive? Good question.
I’m not taking any sides here. This is just some good food for thought.
Joining Forces Home Page →
From the CHA Announcement:
Joining Forces is designed to generate awareness among medical professionals and others within communities about the challenges — medical, social and emotional — that veterans and their families face as they return home from military service.
Check the site for online education. (For CME credit, too!)
Hospice Chaplains Take Up Bedside Counseling →
Here’s a great article on the work of hospice chaplains.
Be sure to check out the narrated slideshow!
(via) CHA Daily News [members-only]
Bendix Family Physicians
Here’s something that I’ve been working on:
Bendix Family Physicians, the result of an unprecedented and ambitious partnership between Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Memorial Health System, and the City of South Bend, will be a full-service medical practice and venue for community health information programming. It is expected that renovations will be complete and the...
Common ED Myths Debunked →
from Newsweek
Pope Benedict XVI on Physician / Patient... →
The Pope’s remarks focused on the dignity of the patients.
From Vatican Radio (via) CHA Daily News (members only)
NB: This links to a Real Audio File
Good Night
When I tell people I spent the night in the Emergency Department (ED) of my hospital, the first reaction I get is a gasp.
After I explain that I wasn’t injured or sick and that I was there all night because I wanted to, the response is usually: “Are you crazy?” Perhaps I am. But I needed to learn about the ED and this is the only way I knew how to do it. I decided to do my...
Nonprofit Hospitals Flee Cities for Suburbs,... →
No doubt - this is a headline designed to turn heads. The article raises questions that need to be answered by everyone in Catholic Healthcare with compassion and transperancy.
I just want to point out at least one of the good things going on in Detroit: Mercy Primary Care Center.
Website Redesigns
These two websites were refreshed this week.
My hospital
My system
To all involved: Thank you for the good work!
Update on the Apparition Window →
at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, MA.
I got mine today.
(It only hurt for a second.)
A Prayer for Mission Discernments
Grant us, O God, the ability to see everything now with new eyes, to discern and test the spirits that help us read the signs of the times, to relish the things that are yours, and to communicate them to others.
Please give us the clarity of understanding needed to carry out our mission this day.
Amen.
adapted from a prayer by Pedro Arrupe, S.J.
Is Health Care a Spiritual Discipline? →
Dr. Daniel Sulmasy, O.F.M., M.D., Ph.D. from St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan and The Bioethics Institute of New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York
(via) The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture
NB: This is a link to a .wmv file.
Health Care in the Next Administration →
From The New England Journal of Medicine
(via) Healthcare In Crisis
“However the frank reality is that given the pressures of the modern medical...”
– New study shows doctors miss many chances to show compassion - Bedside Manner - HealthTalk
Compassion is often listed as a core value of Catholic Healthcare Institutions.
The study cited for this article was done at a VA hospital. I wonder what would happen if the same study was done in a...
Do gamers make better surgeons? →
…or mission leaders?
Retreat!
Over the past 10-15 years, I’ve participated and led countless retreats for junior high and high school students. Today, I enter uncharted territory - a retreat with the Senior Leadership Team of my hospital.
Some things will surely be the same (I hear there will be a skit) and somethings will probably be different (I had retreat homework to do!).
I’m especially excited about the...