How Hospitals Can Help Patients Heal by Reducing Noise
While I am most comfortable being the doctor in the patient-doctor encounter, I recently had the tables turned during a three-day stay at the hospital while recovering from a burst…
A Look Into My Wife’s Response to Cancer
My wife, Susan, has experienced five types of cancer in her life—breast, melanoma, basal cell, and squamous cell and we have always been very different in our responses to it.…
Look Beyond the SOAP Note
As a primary care provider, I’ve found that the SOAP note is too narrow to effectively grasp the causes of and approaches needed for many of the conditions I see – conditions like chronic pain, obesity, diabetes and hypertension.
Restoring Joy in Medicine through Whole Person Team-Based Care
As a practicing family physician in the military health system, Wayne Jonas, MD, used to ignore his own wellbeing to spend more time caring for—and connecting with—his patients. He rarely got…
Group Medical Visits: How can this model support clinicians and patients financially, emotionally and physically?
Send us a Text Message. SummaryDr. Jeff Geller discusses the use of group medical visits as a treatment for loneliness and a way to provide healthcare in underserved areas. He…
You Already Know How to Do Whole Person Care
An excerpt from Healing and Cancer: A Guide to Whole Person Care If you've never (until reading Healing and Cancer) heard of the Personal Health Inventory (PHI) as a tool…
Clinician as Healer
PHYSICIANS: Earn up to 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. NURSES: Earn up to 3 Contact Hours.
How to Measure Nothing
In health care, if you do not name and document a problem or a process, it remains invisible. It might as well be nothing. The biggest problem we have for…
Patient Education
With chronic illness, medical treatment alone is only responsible for up to 20% of improvement. The other 80% comes from lifestyle, behavior, and environmental causes outside the doctor’s office. We…
Whole Person Primary Care
Whole person primary care is just good medicine. It is person-centered, relationship-based care, and it takes into account the social, spiritual, emotional, and behavioral aspects of health as well as…