Synopsis: Visiting children and their families in the hospital, Clown Care founder Michael Christensen has learned to focus on "what's going right" in the room. Speaking at the first Gel Health conference, Christensen describes how his clown rounds got started, and finishes with an on-stage performance as Dr. Stubs. Source: GEL (Good Experience Live) Health
Synopsis: Dean Ornish talks about simple, low-tech and low-cost ways to take advantage of the body's natural desire to heal itself. This talk is very entertaining, interesting and packed with information that supports the healing wonders of the body-- even when illness and disease have already set in. Source: Website: TED ideas worth spreading Vol/Page/Date:
Description: Tuesday December 1, 2009: You can prevent Heart Attacks You can prevent Strokes You can prevent Colon Cancer You can prevent Cervical Cancer You can prevent Breast Cancer You can prevent Prostate Cancer Really? Well perhaps You can prevent Syphilis You can prevent the Friends of Syphilis You can prevent smallpox, polio, measles, mumps,
Description: Tuesday December 1, 2009: Medicare recently started publicly reporting hospital readmission rates as a measure of quality, and there are proposals to financially penalize hospitals with high rates of readmission. A recent article in the Annals of Internal Medicine makes a compelling case that an unintended consequence of such a proposal could be to
Description: Some conversations are easier than others Last Thanksgiving weekend, many of us bloggers participated in the first documented “blog rally” to promote Engage With Grace – a movement aimed at having all of us understand and communicate our end-of-life wishes. It was a great success, with over 100 bloggers in the healthcare space and
Description: November 23, 2009: Diane Meier just tweeted: "60 minutes misses the point- palliative care is about matching treatment to patient goals, NOT stopping it." The central question raised by the 60 minute episode and subsequent discussion: how should costs fit into the conversation about end-of-life care? Various positions: 1. We should focus on
Description: November 22, 2009: CBS did a segment entitled "The Cost Of Dying" on tonight's 60 Minutes.Considering the title of the segment and the short amount of time alloted to it, CBS's coverage was accurate and thought provoking.I'd have done some things differently.....for example: Point made: Patients most often don't pay their medical
Synopsis: Joan Bakewell discusses the real-life case of Mary, a terminally-ill woman in her 80s. She has considered her condition and has decided that she wants to die. Source: The BBC Vol/Page/Date: August 6, 2009 Resource Type: Video or Podcast Author/Source: BBC: Inside the Ethics Committee Link URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00lvgwj keywords: ethics, suicide, refusing palliative care
Description: This Gel Video is of Bridget Duffy speaking at the 2009 Gel Health conference. She talks about her recent experience as a patient with a broken leg and how that has continued to inspire her work improving the patient experience. Link: Visit Site Media Video: Related Resources: Gel Health Conference 2009 Video: Dr. Bridget
Description: CBS's 60 minutes recently spent time with the Palliative Care Team at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, NH filming part of a segment that aired on sunday November 22nd called The Cost of Dying. Link: Visit Site Related Resources: Geripal Blog: Dying in 14 Minutes of 60 Minutes Geripal Blog: "How should costs fit into
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