Tag: Patient

Priority Queues in Healthcare: Optimizing Patient Care

Imagine you’re responsible for managing a busy hospital. The hospital deals with a constant influx of patients with varying degrees of medical urgency. You need an efficient system to prioritize and manage patient care to ensure that critical cases receive immediate attention. Read on to fin...

Be Patient and Grow

Patience and growth are two related words. These two words are about mental growth. Because a patient individual is a growing individual. In my life, I am always faced with various problems. This problem is something that I never want to happen in my life. Who also wants to have problems in hi...

The Role of Clinical Facilitators in Improving Patient Outcomes

The role of clinical facilitators is often overlooked in terms of patient outcomes. However, clinical facilitators are highly skilled and qualified professionals that are responsible for shaping the careers of various healthcare professionals. They help ensure that the nursing staff that i...

Sometimes Things Don’t Look Good

As I sat in the waiting area of ​​the lab, I overheard a conversation between the registration nurse and a patient who spoke little English: Nurse: Fill in the date! Patient: Today? Nurse: I don’t know when you took the sample. If you did it today, fill in today’s date! Also...

The Silent Patient

The protagonist of the psychological thriller “The Silent Patient” is successful painter Alicia Berenson, who resides in a posh area of London. With a devoted husband called Gabriel, Alicia seems to have the ideal existence. However, everything changes one evening when she is discovered ...

The Myth of Patient Satisfaction Scores Needs to Be Exposed

Choosing a new healthcare provider can be a taxing and unreliable process, mainly if we depend solely on online patient satisfaction surveys of provider ratings. Occasionally, reviews in other areas, such as book publishing, open our eyes to how these surveys or reviews are rife with manipulati...

The Professional Patient: Why the chronically sick need to be taken seriously & why you need to help

The term “professional patient” has been used as slang by the medical community to describe someone who they feel is difficult & likely imagining the health issues they have. Today, I’m officially taking it away and repurposing it. When a person is diagnosed with a long term...

The Quest for Patient-Centered Outcomes in Opioid Agonist Treatment

In the battle against opioid use disorder, the search for the most effective treatment options is ongoing. Recently, I came across a thought-provoking article by Louisa Degenhardt and her colleagues that delved into a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis comparing buprenorphine versus m...

Digital Twins in Healthcare: Revolutionizing Diagnostics and Transforming the Patient Journey

In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, a ground-breaking concept is gaining momentum: digital twins. These digital replicas of patients, powered by advanced technology and data, are poised to revolutionize diagnostics and redefine the patient journey. In this post, we delve into the exciting ...

Why I “sold out” to big Pharma — a patient story

The more I looked into the research pipeline for my condition, the more hope I had for the next generation, but the worse the news seemed for me personally. Despite over 90 DMD clinical trials active or recruiting worldwide today, almost none of the trials for new substances are open to over 21-year...