Okay, this quote from Milton Berle is only tangentially related to today’s blog post, but I couldn’t pass it up. My last contribution to our blog was on rising mortality due to Clostridia difficile (C.diff) and its fomite- and hand-related transmission. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2012
“I don’t want to hold your hand.” – C.S.Lewis. “I want to hold your hand.” – The Beatles
A recent survey of multiple large, national databases in the US has reported that Clostridium difficile (C.diff) colitis is now the 9th leading cause of gastrointestinal and liver related deaths. Way out of line with my own perception of GI-related mortality, Continue reading
Communicating bad news – an art and a science
(Thanks to Doug Wilson, MD, president of the Napa County Medical Society, for the idea for this post.)
One of our hardest jobs as physicians is delivering bad news. It is emotionally draining, time-consuming, and uncomfortable. Most of us received very little training in Continue reading