We have a reason to celebrate! Our podcast series “10 Minutes to Better Patient Communication” has been around for three full years! This is our 83rd episode and we have more than 40,000 downloads. You go ahead and do the math. It’s a reason to party! And to mark the occasion: we have a new […]
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Thoughts from the inaugural NPHIC + CDC Health Communication Marketing & Media Forum
Conference season is in full swing, and I am not minding these virual formats! This week, the National Public Health Information Coalition (NPHIC) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hosted a free online health communication, marketing, and media forum, “From 2020 hindsight to 20/20 foresight.” Plenty of wordplay and optimism in that […]
“The things that bring us the most joy:” Stressed Pharmacy students turn to art
This gorgeous photgraph is the cover of the First Volume of the College of Pharmacy Review, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, Duluth Campus. (The Second Volume was just published.) A few months back, just as COVID was first hitting the US, I had the pleasure of sitting down for a Skype interview with Julia […]
Ways & Means seeks input re: ‘the misuse of race within clinical care’
Last week, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal followed up a series of letters to medical leaders with an open Request for Information about “the misuse of race within clinical care.” We told you about the series of letters in this post. Apparently, Chairman Neal received so many responses from health professionals that he hadn’t originally […]
Why is House Ways and Means Chairman Neal writing to medical leaders?
House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal recently wrote a series of letters to the leaders of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, the American Society of Nephrology, and the American Thoracic Society. […]
Addressing Implicit Bias Audiobook Bundle 2nd Edition
Current events are shining a light on historic disparities. It’s well documented that COVID-19 disproportionately impacts marginalized populations. This medical-societal emergency is a time when bias surfaces right in front of our faces. People are tired of inequalities and their effects. This is time for action. Introducing Addressing Implicit Bias Audiobook Bundle 2nd Edition Newly […]