A CDC study was just released confirming what we already knew: healthcare workers are experiencing burnout. Healthcare workers have high rates of depression and anxiety, and many
A new study from the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute Center for Diagnostic Excellence estimates that possibly 795,000 people every year die or are seriously injured
We have written blogs recently that described how AI is being applied to medical issues, particularly with regard to radiology imaging. It seems now that
We speak to folks every day who have had a bad experience with medical care. Sometimes the care leads to injury, and sometimes this injury
Research shows that diagnostic errors occur in at least one in twenty medical encounters. Women and people are color are more likely to be misdiagnosed
Our medical records contain a lot of information. Much of it objective – lab results, vital signs, living situation, or observations of symptoms, for example.
Greek philosopher Heraclitus, some 2,500 years ago, is credited with writing that the only constant in life is change. And Benjamin Franklin wrote “when you’re
Anchoring bias is a well known cognitive bias in medicine. The term refers to overemphasizing early-acquired information. One example which occurs in medicine that looks
A report by the group Public Citizen shed some light on state medical licensing boards across the country. The report examined the extent to which
Neuroscience researchers in Germany are working on a method for inserting “designer cytokines” to regenerate injured spinal cords. Of course, the research to date has been
