COVID-19: An Opportunity for True Health Care Transformation
The COVID-19 bomb just blew apart America’s healthcare system. It has poked holes in all our weaknesses and laid to waste many who work in health care, both on the…
How Your Physical Presence Can Impact Others’ Healing
It has been scientifically proven that our physical and emotional presence influences the healing of other human beings—it’s a phenomenon that is as fascinating as it is beautiful. The following…
Self-Care in a Post-Pandemic World
It has been just over a month since our new survey was conducted and published by The Harris Poll on behalf of the Samueli Foundation. Its findings have offered a…
A Better Way to Manage Chronic Diseases: In-Person and Virtual Group Visits
Healthy choices and behavior like better nutrition, exercise, stress management and good sleep help patients with chronic diseases feel and live better. But busy physicians rarely have time to provide…
Healing Patients in this Time of Loneliness and Social Isolation
Social distancing is essential in helping flatten the COVID-19 curve but it’s also having a devastating effect on our patients' physical, mental and spiritual health. Nearly half of American adults…
When Less Means More: Less Medical Care Means More Self-Care
Unfortunately, COVID-19 isn’t the only thing that can make you sick these days. Luckily, as re-entry is becoming more common across the country, there are ways to "hack" your stay-at-home…
Survey: COVID-19 Spurs Increase in Self-Care
The vast majority of U.S. adults (80%) say they will be more mindful about practicing self-care regularly once the pandemic is over, according to a new survey conducted by The…
Coronavirus, Healthcare, and the Road Ahead
What our hospitals, health systems and individual clinicians have been able to do in the face of this crisis is nothing short of heroic. Major medical centers in the United…
How to Prioritize Self-Care So You Can Be a Better Caregiver To Those You Love
During the current pandemic, your life has surely occupied a very different space, squeezing you into many different roles. You might be a remote worker right now, relegated to your…
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…