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Using the Arts and Humanities to Build Resilience and Well-Being and Reduce Burnout in Pediatrics Health Leaders
As physicians, nurses, and other health care workers in the United States face increasing pressure to do more with less, there has been growing interest in the benefits of incorporating artistic and humanistic values into medical training to build resilience and wellness.
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Exploring the Emotional Side of Illness through Writing
In the intensive care unit, food is an important symbol for the medical staff, providing a way for them to deal with their sadness and anxiety. Food is also a way to offer comfort to grieving families. Daniela Lamas, a pulmonary and critical care doctor at the Brigham & Women's Hospital, thinks a lot about such telling details that she encounters on the job.
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8 Elements of a Successful Clinical Research Career
When clinicians focus on building up their strengths in this area earlier in their career path, it can help them establish themselves for success in the field.
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The Role for Health Coaching in Primary Care
Why aren’t we offering this sort of supported behavior change in every primary care doctor’s office across the country?
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Uncertainty in Decision-Making: Critical Care, Imperfect Data
Margaret “Molly” Hayes, MD, associate director of the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program and assistant director of the medical intensive care unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), discusses handling uncertainty in critical care decision-making.
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Language Equity is Essential in Outpatient Practice
Unfortunately, in many institutions, interpreter services can no longer accommodate the volume of people with limited English proficiency—particularly for foreign languages less commonly spoken in the world.
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Best Practices for Engaging Physicians in Health Technology
Leaders in health care attempting to implement health technology can benefit from principles that explain the uptake of innovations, map the requirements of overcoming resistance to change, and facilitate the adoption of technology into practice.
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Home Hospital: Potential Gains and Obstacles
David M. Levine, MD, MPH, MA, a physician and researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, discusses potential gains and obstacles for home hospital.
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SMART on FHIR: Big Gains, Big Challenges
Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH, director of the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children's Hospital, discusses opportunities, limits, and hurdles for health care data apps.
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Telehealth: Are We Saving Money Yet?
Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, associate professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School discusses striking growth and potential savings in telehealth.
