He and other SHM officials have pushed hospitalists for the past few years to formalize their HIT duties by seeing if they would qualify to take the exam for board certification in medical informatics, which was created in 2013 by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). Between certification of that skill set and working more with technology vendors and others to improve HIT, Dr. Rogers sees HM being able to help reform much of the current technology woes in just a few years.

edical specialization dates back at least to the time of Galen. For most of medicine’s history, however, the boundaries of medical fields have been based on factors such as patient age (pediatrics and geriatrics), ana-tomical and physiological systems (ophthalmology and gastroenter-ology), and the physician’s tool-set (radiology and surgery). Hos-pital medicine, by contrast, is defined by the location in which care is delivered. Whether such delineation is a good or bad sign for physicians, patients, hospitals, and society hinges on how we understand the interests and as-pirations of each of these groups

Having initial medical discussions without the family and information filtering are common for LEP patients; filtering may be associated with poorer diagnosis comprehension. Experience with a hospitalized child is associated with increased comprehension among LEP parents.

Preceptors must create an environment that is friendly to novice nurses and conducive to perioperative nurse education, particularly in light of the current nursing shortage. Effective teachers use principles of adult learning to facilitate the education of new employees. This results in increased satisfaction for preceptors, preceptees, other staff members, and ultimately, patients.

The role of educational technology in medical education

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Skill and competency of medical staff

Speed in completing examination and reports

I realized that with my medical condition (link is external), it had to be someone who understood my condition, my philosophy about life and healthcare, along with knowing my long list of allergies to medications and foods.

Further, a doctor, medical center, hospital, EMT, and even assisted living staff can make decisions regarding your healthcare, treatment methods and type of medical care to provide you if you are not married, over 18 years old, and do not have a health care proxy in place

Who would decide what was best for you? Who would advocate on your behalf?

Health care proxy: An advance medical directive in the form of a legal document that designates another person (a proxy) to make health care decisions in case a person is rendered incapable of making his or her wishes known.

The question each proxy should ask when making decisions on behalf of others is, who am I truly serving — the patient or myself?

In situations like this, the proxy (knowingly or unknowingly), is primarily motivated by his own need to have one last opportunity to repair the broken relationship and make amends to redeem himself.

When the patient is unwilling or unable to make medical decisions, the health care proxy is activated and he or she is obligated to make all health choices on behalf of the patient. These may be related to withdrawing or withholding life support, instituting artificial liquid feeding, attempting resuscitation and even whether or not to participate in autopsy and organ donation.

Most of us will lose our ability to make medical decisions for ourselves in the last phase of our lives

somebody in the early annals of medicine had called pneumonia the patient's friend because it takes you away fairly painlessly

Via email, the primary investigator of COURAGE, Dr William Boden (Boston University, MA), highlighted that investigators found no subset of patients that did better with PCI vs OMT. Not those with multivessel disease and EF<50%, not those with LAD disease, and not those with nuclear studies showing moderate-severe ischemia.[7–9]

espected investigators from Imperial College London have shaken the core of cardiology. The stakes could not be bigger. Millions of people have received stents for stable coronary artery disease (CAD) at a cost of billions of dollars.

Coronary Stents Humbled Yet Again in Stable CAD

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Hacked medical devices make for scary headlines.

Previous to the nineteenth century, physicians classified diseases based on the observation of the pre-conditional symptoms known at the time

Mengele conducted medical experiments on twins. He also directed serological experiments on Roma (Gypsies), as did Werner Fischer at Sachsenhausen, in order to determine how different "races" withstood various contagious diseases. The research of August Hirt at Strasbourg University also intended to establish "Jewish racial inferiority."

Other gruesome experiments meant to further Nazi racial goals were a series of sterilization experiments, undertaken primarily at Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck.

Unethical medical experimentation carried out during the Third Reich may be divided into three categories.

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