Another reason to evalu...

Yesterday I attended a Grand Rounds on sickle cell presented by Dr. Dorothea Douglas. She told a story first shared by Dr. Graham Sergeant, a field leader who studied sickle cell in Jamaica. Apparently, he cared for a couple who were each carriers of the disease. He told them that...

Sign on my office door...

Here’s a link to a photo of my office door. I posted a QR code that can be read using an app on a smart phone. This specific code provides ways to evaluate understanding, and examples of how you might ask the patient to teach back the content. http://www.flickr.com/photos/franlondon/5845144447/ I...

Blinded by technology? ...

I just leaned about a beautifully illustrated app available for the iPad. It’s designed to educate the lay patient about medical problems treatable with surgery. I’m not going to tell you which one I’m talking about because I’m not writing a review of the app itself. I’m...

Does how you view your ...

It puzzles me that not every health care provider is as enthusiastic about patient and family education as I am. Why isn’t is obvious to all that, after saving lives, our most important service is patient education? So I asked. I listened. I thought. I now have a theory: How...