Improving Inpatient Experiences
As a hospitalist, I am pretty much always on the delivery side of healthcare: I help determine the treatment plan, write the orders, call in specialty services, and communicate the anticipated schedule for the day. This past week, a close family member was hospitalized, and I got to see how patients and families typically experience […]
Mentoring High School Students on a Research Project: Part 1
Just this past September 2020, we (PhysioQ https://physioq.org/stem ) worked with CustomED (another non-profit, https://customed.org/ ) to run the Data for a Difference nation-wide competition pilot, where students across the USA aged 13-18 used our LabFront For Schools platform and wearable wristband devices to collect and analyze data around a health problem in their communities over a 2-week period. Each team was partnered with an experienced researcher who served as mentors throughout the whole competition. I happened to mentor three very bright, motivated […]
COVID Chronicles: Part 1
Today marks the 1st anniversary of the very first COVID-19 patient being admitted to our hospital. It is hard to believe that it has been only a year since that date. So much has happened since then. But I certainly recall the deep foreboding that many of us in the medical field felt. It was […]