This week I watched a video that I had no idea would hit home the way it did. Dr. Gunn starts the video with a story of a patient who died in a stairwell in a hospital in San Francisco. I currently work at the sister hospital of the one she discussed. I’m very aware …
Monthly Archives: October 2019
Patient Experience vs Patient Satisfaction
Without knowing that this was one of the topics for next week’s assignment I watched a Ted Talks on Patient experience vs patient satisfaction. This has been a major topic this semester as we have read and discussed how the patient experience has diminished and sometimes is non existent based on how the patient is …
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Its broke, lets fix it
In this weeks post, I watched a TED Talks on how to fix the healthcare system by surgeon Ayesha Khalid. Khalid told a story on how a patient who was given the run around many times named Charlie was her patient and after running a cat scan she found that he had a mass that …
Ted Talk
I watched a Ted Talk on how racism makes black people sick. This talk was presented by David Williams and he touched on many issues that we have covered in class. Mainly from a health equity and equality standpoint, we have discussed how a persons environment can contribute to a persons health outcomes. The reason …
The Doctor’s Downfall
When reading these articles it is clear to see that doctors downfall in America is mostly contributed to behavior like this. Doctors, usually white males are very bias towards minorities, women and the LGBTQ community. This is not saying every doctor is this way the research shows that there is proof. When reading these articles …
Health is Wealth. 