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Rethinking How Medicaid Patients Receive Care

Many distrust the American medical profession, but many of those who would entrust a doctor with their care ... to health,” we found, could compel candidates to share stories of guiding patients ... read more

Patients Deserve The Best Care. NHS Services Must Do More To Adopt An Integrated Approach

As a GP and public health doctor, I have plenty of experience of care that hasn’t been properly joined-up. I have seen, too many times, patients repeating their story again and again to different heal... read more

How Atlanta doctors and female patients take charge

In this special section of Atlanta Business Chronicle, on this page, we’ll look at the latest efforts to personalize treatment and care for breast cancer patients, and on page 35A, how health care pro... read more

Toughest talk: Medical students learn to discuss patients’ wishes for end-of-life care

Until recently, unless they’ve specialized in palliative care, many medical students haven’t been taught about interacting with dying patients. Role-playing ... for end-of-life medical training and sh... read more

Ladder program helps youngsters step up to health care careers

Everybody gets a chance to share stories, so the children ... neighborhoods are listed as federal health care professional shortage areas due to the lack of primary care doctors willing to serve low-i... read more

New levels of care

Shapiro, executive vice president leading UPMC’s Health Services Division, spoke, in part, of UPMC’s development of genomic-DNA database so it can share health care information ... new Patient Tower f... read more

How Police Shootings Affect the Mental Health of Black Americans

"Friends and patients ... their anxiety rose or they had PTSD, how they felt incredibly defeated or depressed after one of these events happened." Venkataramani wanted to understand the mental ... read more

Senate Special Committee on Aging Issues Testimony From Martin’s Point Health Care

Even more striking were the stories of human suffering--patients not understanding their ... by care managers and social workers working with physicians and other health care professionals ... read more

Cross Country Healthcare Helps Children in Ecuador Receive Life-Changing Surgery in Sixth Year of Charitable Medical Mission Trip

"We are incredibly honored to have built a long-term partnership with Project Perfect World, and further our commitment to improving patient care and ... Country Healthcare. “When our nurses return ho... read more

What I've learned about caring for my mental health since having a breakdown

As I sat, listening to others share their stories ... support and health care, pouring myself into something that makes me happy, practicing self-care, and most of all, being patient with myself. read more

How 70 Years of Healthcare Storytelling Helped Britain Fall in Love with the NHS

Seeking out and sharing stories of other ... might not have listened to health care professionals.” An evaluation of storytelling in NHS organizations a few years ago revealed it has the potential to ... read more

Program helps caregivers under stress after errors

A surgeon misreads a patient's chart. A nurse inserts the wrong IV or administers too great a dose of a drug. Even the best health care professionals may make ... existed for those who might wish to s... read more