Posts from the ‘History of Medicine’ Category
- Post-Hospital Syndrome on June 14, 2014
- Doomed to Repeat on July 18, 2013
- All Educated Up and No Place To Go on July 12, 2013
- Second Chances on June 5, 2013
- A Book Excerpt on May 15, 2013
medicine for real- Specific PeopleIt will surprise some of my readers and none of my friends when I say that I don’t like people very much. Specific people I like a lot but as for your average generic human…not so much. People are messy. They throw off your schedule. They’re unpredictable. They expect reciprocal playdates. Two events yesterday reminded me the […]
- R.E.S.P.E.C.TI have recently started to volunteer for an organization called Friendshipworks, a wonderful group of people whose goal is to alleviate the pervasive problem of elder isolation. Once a week or so I escort an elderly client to a doctor’s appointment, to help them get where they need to go but also to hang out […]
- The book part IIHe’s the website: https://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Leng%2C+Shirie
- The BookHello, readers! I haven’t been here for a while but that’s because I’ve been working on the long-promised book about medicine and nursing. I’m pleased to announce that it is out! “The Choice: medicine vs nursing, which field is right for you?” is now out on Amazon. Six bucks, 64 pages, check it out!
- The End of EmpathyNew word of the day: Tele-empathy. Tele-empathy is not being empathetic over the phone. It is not crying in the sad parts of your favorite TV show. It is not beaming empathetic thoughts magically across time and space. No, tele-empathy is a technology. I should rather say, a group of technologies recently being created to […]
- Right To TryI haven’t posted on this blog for quite some time, having gotten distracted by the tempting and ultimately false hope of a do-over. Despite my best efforts over the last few months two things have become clear. One, I’m probably never going to play for the New York Philharmonic. Two, last November isn’t coming back […]
- Is Your Hospital Anti-Baby?Pregnant women – a public service announcement: the facility of choice for your birth experience might be Baby-Hostile. You should probably check. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has created a “global initiative” entitled The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI). And thank goodness. What new mother w […]
- All mothers are not Kate Middleton.Good news, all you new mothers out there! Now you have something else to feel guilty about, because you needed one more thing to feel guilty about! You already know that you baby must be put to sleep on his back in a crib with a firm mattress and no pillows, blankets, toys, or bumpers. […]
- Practice vs. PerformanceIt is one of the most boring truisms on the planet: “Practice makes perfect.” It is also one of the most misleading. Practice merely ingrains certain patterns after deciding on the best course of action after constant criticism and problem-solving. Performance requires that the body forget the work required to ingrain the pattern and let […]
- Prove ItI was recently honored by a request to write a piece for the journal Outpatient Surgery. Having duly provided a pithy and witty ditty about the Veteran’s Administration MD vs CRNA kerfuffle, the editor dutifully came back at me with an edit. He said: “Can you give a specific example of how the broad knowledge […]
- Specific People
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