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Por Dan Schwarz, MD, MPH y Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH Versión en inglés disponible aquí. “Lo que hagamos, o no hagamos, en la siguiente semana tendrá un impacto sumamente grande en el trayecto local y quizá nacional del coronavirus. Con relación a Italia, nosotros estamos algunos días atrasados”- Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH (Social Distancing: This… Continue reading #KidsHomeSafe: Consejos para familias sobre distanciamiento social
By Dan Schwarz, MD, MPH, and Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH Adapted from Social Distancing: This is Not a Snow Day Information available in Spanish here. “What we do, or don’t do, over the next week will have a massive impact on the local and perhaps national trajectory of coronavirus. We are only [a few] days… Continue reading #KidsHomeSafe: Advice on Social Distancing for Families
March 13, 2020 (Updated March 17, 2020)Download a printable PDF version of this article here. I know there is some confusion about what to do next in the midst of this unprecedented time of a pandemic, school closures, and widespread social disruption. As a primary care physician and public health leader, I have been asked… Continue reading Social Distancing: This is Not a Snow Day
Originally published by Ariadne Labs on March 13, 2020 | Updated March 17, 2020 By Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH I know there is some confusion about what to do next in the midst of this unprecedented time of a pandemic, school closures, and widespread social disruption. As a primary care physician and public health leader,… Continue reading Social Distancing: This is Not a Snow Day
For many people facing serious illness, religious belief can offer an important source of strength and hope in difficult times. Despite the clear importance of religion in the lives of many Americans, physicians may view it as a barrier to meaningful conversations about end-of-life care, and struggle to reconcile religion’s role in the context of… Continue reading Spirituality and the Serious Illness Conversation Guide
The most vexing issue with setting up a serious illness conversation program is not convincing hospital administrations and physicians of the value of these conversations. Rather, stumbling blocks more often involve the logistics of implementing a system that would regularly identify and schedule meetings with those who would most benefit from an in-depth discussion about… Continue reading Paper explores ways to identify patients who would benefit from a serious illness conversation
By Ian Solsky, MD, MPH Illustrated by Courtney Staples Attending medical school more than 30 years ago, my father claims he worked with a surgeon who gave trainees feedback while brandishing a pistol and stomping on the eyeglasses of a student that had slipped into the surgical field. As a general surgery resident, I can… Continue reading How a global, surgical checklist can help shape OR culture
In our new series, we highlight the staff and faculty behind the compelling work at Ariadne Labs. Hannah Ratcliffe discusses how the Ariadne team is working to strengthen primary health care globally. After obtaining a degree in biology, Hannah Ratcliffe worked as a bench scientist but says she soon realized “the details of protein pathways… Continue reading Five questions with Hannah Ratcliffe
By Bill Berry, MD, MPA, MPH This is the second post in a series on implementation efforts at Ariadne Labs. Read the first installment by Sue Gullo, our director of Implementation. Humans resist change. Maybe it’s a survival mechanism from our evolutionary past. When the world was uncertain, we stuck to what seemed to work.… Continue reading Overcoming resistance to a surgical safety checklist