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Entries from blog.bioethics.net tagged with 'hospitals'
Slapping Docs' Hands for Not Washing Them
That's the recommendation from the master of medical checklists Peter Pronovost of Johns Hopkins University and Robert Wachter of University of California at San Francisco, says the WSJ Health Blog. Lack of accountability is the reason why a whole range of medical errors exist contend the pair, according to a... (read the rest)
The Hospital That Pays Together Stays Together
What do you do when your hospital is in budget trouble and layoffs are expected? Well, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the department heads open their wallets and decide to pony up some of their own hard earned money to keep their departments afloat. According to the Wall Street... (read the rest)
Ethics by Checklist
Published last Friday in British Medical Journal, Daniel Sokol asked this question, "If you were a patient, would you prefer your medical team to use an ethics checklist?" Washington Hospital Center already uses one apparently as a sort of "crib sheet" for the standard set of ethical issues that arise... (read the rest)
Will We Ever Learn in New Orleans?
According to reports on CNN News this morning, the most critical of patients in New Orleans area hospitals remain there with fingers crossed that the generators hold out long enough for Hurricane Gustav to pass. For the most critical of patients, they probably don't have many options to be moved,... (read the rest)
Out with them, out with them all!
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that a health care group got an early jump on Spring cleaning: Administrators at SMDC Health System saw them as virulent, insidious and cause for an all-out eradication campaign in its four hospitals and 17 clinics throughout northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Germs? No, pens and... (read the rest)
AJOB article at center of focus on hospital ethics consultation
American Medical News, an AMA publication, recently took a look at the state of ethics consult services in hospitals -- and it found a lot of unease. Doctors are hesitant to call for ethics consults. Ethics consultants often lack the training and resources to effectively address situations. And among bioethicists,... (read the rest)
The hospital as magazine design
Over at the appropriately titled Designing Magazines blog Jandos Rothstein recounts his recent experience navigating a hospital. "Awkward" is one of the words he uses. That leads Rothstein to speculate what an appropriate design might be for a magazine aimed at hospital administrators: Nearly all hospitals are as byzantine as... (read the rest)
The hospital's velvet rope
The Dallas Morning News reports today that the UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas keeps an extensive list of influential people who are supposed to get a little extra attention when they come to the hospital for treatment. The perks reportedly include preferential allotment of appointments, free parking and personal... (read the rest)
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