Healing Touch

I especially love the distinction between the e-patient and the actual patient.
Although our current health care reimbursement system measures mostly our e-patient care, we must take good care of both.
Nancy


Abraham Verghese : A Doctor's Touch on TED

Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese describes our strange new world where patients are merely data points, and calls for a return to the traditional one-on-one physical exam.

Tools for Documenting Capcity

These are great tools for documenting capacity.
--Nancy

Does this patient have medical decision-making capacity?

Sessums LL, Zembrzuska H, Jackson JL.

JAMA. 2011 Jul 27;306(4):420-7. Review.   PMID:  21791691.

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Aid to Capacity Evaluation (ACE)
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