Comments for Resilient Ambassadors of Change

Comment on What doctors are telling us, even when they’re not talking by Kathleen Rose

Kathleen Rose — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:24:07 +0000

I once watched a training video where the actor playing the doctor was wrapping up an office visit. He asked the patient “Do you have any questions?” while slightly moving his head left to right, left to right. The patient’s eyes followed the “doctor’s” head movements, and he slowly began shaking his head “no.” So, even though the doc’s words indicated the desire to engage the patient in Q&A, his body language spoke much louder, having quite the opposite effect.

Comment on The future of medicine: 2012 edition by Stephen Schimpff MD

Stephen Schimpff MD — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:33:48 +0000

That is a good list but I would add some others, although it is not clear that they will necessarily be fulfilled within the year:
1) Greater use of genomics, especially to predict and prevent disease and to create targeted drugs, especially for cancer
2) Advances across the board with vaccines – for infectious diseases but also various chronic diseases such as cancer. Later for Alzheimer’s and coronary artery disease and even addiction.
3) More understanding of stem cells and how to use them for patient benefit. Perhaps in treating heart attacks.
4) Use of gene therapy for a few uncommon but crippling diseases such as hemophilia.
5) New medical devices to augment pacemakers and internal cardioverters. For example wireless ability to learn what arrhythmias have occurred during a day or week or month between physician visits, thereby augmenting care plans.
6) Wireless everything to augment patient care. Examples would be home monitoring of weight for heart failure patients; glucose for diabetics, etc with the results beamed to the physician’s office for immediate analysis and drug corrections before the need for an office, ER or hospital visit becomes necessary.

I discuss these regularly at http://www.medicalmegtrends.blogspot.com and in my book The Future of Medicine at http://www.medicalmegatrends.com

Comment on Friday round-up by Mat Harris

Mat Harris — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:12:30 +0000

Christa: Thanks for sharing my article. I hope people find it useful. There are so many good doctors out there, I hate to see people waste their time with jerky doctors who don’t have their patient’s best interests at heart. Regarding your comment on short wait times, I guess I’m referring mainly to my type of plastic surgery practice where we do all we can to accomodate our patients and our referral sources. Some specialties where docs are limited in number may not be able to realistically meet this expectation.

Regards,

Matheson Harris

Comment on This science fair project makes my science fair project look like an idiot by Classroom Solar & Wind Science Experiments

Classroom Solar & Wind Science Experiments — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:43:22 +0000

Kids today know a lot more than they did when I was in school. I think that it is important that we encourage kids to “go out on a limb” when they develop science fair projects, even if this means that they may not draw a valid conclusion. In the end the students are learning about the scientific process and making mistakes is actually a great way to learn.

Comment on Collaborative Learning by Kathie Rose

Kathie Rose — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:34:11 +0000

Here’s a link to the video referenced in Cathy Davidson’s article. Found it right on our blog!
http://resilientambassadors.com/2010/08/attention-please/

Comment on Transform 2011 by Kathie

Kathie — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:47:58 +0000

My bags are nearly packed; I’ll tweet all about it!

Comment on The case for addiction medicine by jillianketterer (Jillian Ketterer)

jillianketterer (Jillian Ketterer) — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:44:41 +0000

New post from the Resilient Ambassadors of Change: : http://resilientambassadors.com/2011/07/626/

Comment on Beyond innovation – how to get buy-in for your big ideas by Ross Martin

Ross Martin — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:51:26 +0000

Christa – Thanks for posting this great summary of the MedBiq unconference session. I suspect that you’ve woven some of your own ideas into this outline as it is much richer than I recall from the original experience. Some excellent thoughts here. Thanks so much!

Comment on Beyond innovation – how to get buy-in for your big ideas by ramblemuse (Keith Eric Grant)

ramblemuse (Keith Eric Grant) — Fri, 13 May 2011 00:05:15 +0000

RT @medbiq: Great blog from Christa Chaffinch on implementing change. http://tinyurl.com/4y826vz Thanks, Christa! #medbiq2011 #medbiq

Comment on Beyond innovation – how to get buy-in for your big ideas by medbiq (MedBiquitous)

medbiq (MedBiquitous) — Thu, 12 May 2011 22:57:36 +0000

Great blog from Christa Chaffinch on implementing change. http://tinyurl.com/4y826vz Thanks, Christa! #medbiq2011 #medbiq