Today, patients are encouraged to use patient portals to keep up to date with lab work, appointments, payments, and doctor visits. In theory, this is a great idea, but complex patients can have multiple patient portals, making the system more fragmented, disconnected,...
I love this time of the year when I find videos of commencement speeches. Recently this speech from Hampton University popped up in my Facebook Memories and it make me think about how we live our lives and where we are today as a country, and as a world. With all...
Each year, I compile two lists; one is my Professional Reading List, and the other is my Summer Reading List. I send out the Summer Reading list the week of July 4th and the Professional Reading list right before Labor Day. Both lists have been well received and...
As we move forward from the COVID 19 Pandemic, we are learning that there are many people who have gone above and beyond to help their fellow man. In this week’s post, I wanted to recognize the work a friend and case management colleague who went above and beyond to...
Over the weekend I learned my friend, who is battling cancer, had see a specialist in Miami. Since COVID she has been seeing most of her doctors virtually, but because she has had a new lesion, the hematologist wanted to see her in his office. She is weak, suffering...