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For the Health Of It™©, Volume 3 #8 Battery Explosion? Reliability, Self Reliance and Reliable Partners in Health & Health Care
For the Health of itâ„¢ Vol 3. No. 8 On the Need for “Rational” Self-reliance and Reliable Partners to Get Best Health & Health Care Michael F. Mascia, MD, MPH with Thanks to *Lanie Adamson for editorial assistance Ten years ago, Katrina got my full attention. Katrina? Battery Explosion? Huh? OK, I hear you screaming,…
Read MoreFor the Health Of It™©, Volume 3 #7 Ticks, Lyme & Other Diseases
Ticks, Lyme and Other Diseases Yes, it is tick season again. How do I know? I plucked one of the ugly critters off me three days ago. Since it was an adult female deer tick and I had no idea how long it was stuck on me, I took prophylactic doxycycline, 200 Mg. Single dose…
Read MoreFor the Health Of It™©, Volume 3 #6 Preventable Hospital Deaths: What are we waiting for?
Preventable Hospital Deaths: Why is this accepted and what can we do about it? A Call for Action Last night I had a chat about preventable hospital deaths and preventable deaths in general. The conversation was triggered by a phone call from one of our VHC members and his knowledge of a recent preventable death…
Read MoreFor the Health Of It™©, Volume 3 #5 Unconditional Love And Direct Feedback: What’s The Connection?
By: Irv Rubin, Ph.D If your first reaction to seeing that title included thoughts along the line–”You’ve gotta be kidding!” “There must be a typo.” “This I have to see!”– you’d not be alone. How can it be that a human behavior– direct feedback–considered by most to be “hellish” has anything to do with a…
Read MoreFor the Health Of It™©, Volume 3 #4 Timeless Leadership Challenges: The Lion King
by Irv Rubin, Ph.D A Disclaimer I’d seen The Lion King before. I saw it quite differently recently. As best as I can tell, several current contextual factors contributed to the difference. My personal journey passed the ¾ century mark. Warren Bennis, a friend, colleague, mentor, and contemporary passed away. But it was Angie Keister’s…
Read MoreFor the Health Of It™©, Volume 3 #3: Physicians & Nurses, Do Your Job?
Physicians and Nurses: Do Your Job? A Few Simple Steps: Promote motion toward basics & optimizing patient engagement, care and treatment. For all health and health care facilities, imagine this: Yes, Listen to the patient. See the impact of your decisions on the front lines. Imagine if … administrators stopped administrating & bean-counters stopped counting…
Read MoreFor the Health Of It™©, Volume 3 #2 QIPI and B2 Building Best Practices: Bridgton, Maine 1975 -1985
QIPI AND BUILDING BEST PRACTICES
Read MoreFor the Health Of It™©, Volume 3 #1 The Joy of Healing: Bimini 1972 – 1975
The Joy of Healing: Bimini 1972 – 1975 For me, it has always been a privilege and a joy to help people with their health and health care problems. But my most joyful and productive healing encounters are burned into my brain. These uncommon experiences play over and over again in my mind and they…
Read MoreFor the Health Of It™©, Volume 2 #20 Influenza Vaccination: To Get or Not To Get?
Influenza Vaccination: To Get or Not To Get? The epidemic reported here Influenza Outbreak in a Vaccinated Population – USS Ardent, February 2014 Weekly October 24, 2014 / 63(42);947-949 and detailed in the link below http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6342a3.htm?s_cid=mm6342a3_w calls into question the value of routine Influenza Vaccination. Currently the “CDC recommends an annual flu vaccine for everyone…
Read MoreFor the Health Of It™©, Volume 2 #19: What's Your Ebola Plan? Preventing Spread of Fear & Virus
What’s Your Ebola Plan? OK, why pretend? Most folks are at least a bit worried about Ebola and more so, since the new cases in Texas that resulted from treatment of a patient who brought the disease with him from Africa. Given that background, let me share the evidence for preventing the spread of Ebola,…
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