Patients Need Better Information In Hospitals

Countless others have written of the injustices faced by those lucky enough to be patients in the developed world in 2014 (as opposed places like West Africa where hospital systems are severely lacking). Some of the pain points for patients surround access to care in...

Terrible Healthcare IT

One would expect that in an era where smartphones are more powerful than our computers were 5 years ago, healthcare providers would have an arsenal of healthcare IT solutions to enhance patient care but also optimize their own work-flow. Shockingly, in 2014 most...

The Fate Of Patients In Resource Poor Settings

“I won’t be here next month.” Ten years ago I walked into my very first patient’s room as part of my medical school physical diagnosis course. I was momentarily confused- but thankfully I did not naively blurt out “why?” I noticed her pale skin and her bald head and...