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Boston Globe’s Gil joins AHCJ board of directors
Gideon Gil, the health and science editor at The Boston Globe, joins five incumbents in being seated on the Association of Health Care Journalists 2011-12 board of directors.
Gideon Gil
Incumbents starting a new two-year term include Felice Freyer of The Providence Journal, Carla K. Johnson of The Associated Press, independent journalist Maryn McKenna, Charles Ornstein of ProPublica and Karl Stark of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Independent journalist Andrew Holtz, a longtime board member and former interim executive director, chose not to run for re-election.
Gil has served on AHCJs membership committee for two years, helping to shape new rules to reflect recent changes in journalism while ensuring AHCJ remains an organization of journalists.
Investigations spotlight workplace safety
Workplace safety got plenty of attention last week, from a public radio investigation in Seattle to a series by the Center for Public Integrity that includes plenty of opportunities for localizing.
KUOWs John Ryan conducted hit the topic from all sides, with a five-part series on workplace safety in Washington. His story selection ranges from stats-directed investigations to features focusing on unique cases.
- Lineworkers Bring Power To The People, Without A Net The curious case of one industry where its widely accepted for workers to work far off the ground with no safety equipment.
- Workplace Safety Inspections Miss Their Target Officials rarely enforce workplace safety rules, and even when they try, they miss the mark.
- Violence In The ER The most violent professions in Washington?
Chinese Takeout: 3 Impressions I Carried Out of China (and Vietnam)
We recently returned from China and Vietnam and have been asked this question many times by curious friends, family, and colleagues. Recognizing that we live in a world of soundbites and that no one really wants to hear every detail about our fourteen day trip, Ive responded by focusing on the experiences and observations that had a lasting impact on how I think. There were three: one is personal, one is political, and one is professional.
Personal: While Made in China is present on everything from chatchkas to clothing labels to housewares, and although Chinas thriving economy is a frequent topic in the business worldI simply wasnt expecting to see their ultra-modern infrastructure. I went to China with a visual image that was pre-Mao. Shame on me. Instead, I saw 14 story shopping malls, a Shanghai skyline best described as New York on steroids, an efficient and clean subway system, and construction cranes on every square block. Whil
Some Useful Tips for Finding and Selecting a Doctor Online
Many doctors and health experts do subscribe to the idea to find a doctor online and selecting a doctor online. These doctors and health experts opine that random, anonymous opinions dont truly measure quality of a good physician. But there are also many doctors and health experts, who opine that the websites providing information on doctors, are going to stay and prosper in the future. In fact these websites providing information about doctors (including how to find a doctor in my area in your locality/city) can be very helpful, provided you use them properly with due care. Here are few tips for surfing/using those websites to select doctors online for your benefit.
The first tip:
Decide what you want for your health care (in long run and for immediate treatment). If you want long term relationship, for your child’s treatment, than a pediatrician within your city or locality will be best. I
Patient centered care lowers cost
This is not a new concept: ten years ago, the IOM’s seminal report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, called for “patient-centeredness.”
What is patient-centered care? Bertakis and Azari call out four communication behaviors:
- Eliciting understanding and validating the patients’ perspective
- Understanding the patient within his or her psychosocial context
- Reaching a shared understanding with the patient of the problem and its treatment
- Creating a partnership in which “activated” patients share in decision making, power and responsibility.
These four precepts were codified in a 2007 publication from the National Cancer Institute, Patient-centered communication in cancer care: promoting healing and reducing suffering.
Some Important Points in Cirrhosis Diet
While preparing a diet plan for cirrhosis patients, some important points should be kept in mind for making recovery from disease (cirrhosis, which is a serious disease of liver and most of the time irreversible damage occurs to liver which is beyond repair) fast and also for reversing architectural distortions of cirrhosis, which may take very long time and may not be able to reverse completely if not taken care of in a proper manner. Without observing the important points the diet plan for cirrhosis may not be complete. Except few cases the liver cirrhosis is a disease with very little chance of recovery to normal and here lies the importance of a proper diet with proper planning to make the chance of recovery better.
The following points are important and should be kept in mind and followed strictly while preparing a diet plan for cirrhosis:
- Diet of cirrhosis patient should be soft and easily digestible, as the liver is damaged in cirrhosis the metabolism of the food that a patient take may not be proper and easily digestible foods are helpful.
- If the patient is very sick, he/she may require liquid diet, till the patient is fit enough to take solid food.
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