Obviously Ebola has been in the new of late, and most of the news coming to of West Africa has not been very encouraging; however, I came across a very interesting news tidbit about the effective treatment and control of disease spread in the 80,000 person community of Harbel in Liberia, essentially a company town […]
How We Die (part 2)
American healthcare doesn’t do a good job of planning for death. I would also argue it doesn’t do a good job of accepting death. If you go to your gynecologist, they’ll ask you if you’ve thought about getting pregnant and how you’d like to manage that possibility. How many times has a physician asked you […]
How We Die (part 1)
Last year I had the opportunity to enroll in a course co-taught by Professor Irving Grousbeck at the business school and Dean Charles Prober at the medical school entitled “Managing Difficult Conversations”. It was a breath of fresh air from the typical medical school curriculum, teaching skills which are hard to define yet essential to the […]
