Tag Archives: Care

Longitudinal integrated clerkships – True patient-centered care

Patient-centered care has for some time served as the aspirational rallying cry of truly good medicine. Whether a physician in training, student nurse or fledgling technician, every encounter reinforces for us that patients are people, rather than a disease, diagnosis or test result, and should be the absolute focus of all care decisions. The notion… Read More »

New job listings for Amazon’s internal telemedicine service, Amazon Care, hint at expansion

Amazon employees are told they can get health care on call Amazon Care, the company’s online medical clinic for its own employees, is trying to hire half a dozen people in business development roles to “build and grow relationships with commercial and public sector enterprises.” Most of the roles were posted in the past month.… Read More »

How Health Care Workers Can Take Care of Themselves – Harvard Business Review

Angela Weiss/Getty Images We’ve made our coronavirus coverage free for all readers. To get all of HBR’s content delivered to your inbox, sign up for the Daily Alert newsletter. The anesthesiologist’s beeper goes off — it’s an emergency call to place a breathing tube in a patient critically ill with coronavirus, a dangerous procedure due… Read More »

Is it safe to see an audiologist or hearing care provider during the pandemic? A checklist

If you’ve been putting off seeing an audiologist or hearing care specialist while sheltering at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, that’s understandable. Many Americans have chosen to delay non-emergency medical care while waiting for things to improve. At the same time, keep in mind that untreated hearing loss is not benign, and the longer you put off… Read More »