Marc's WeblogHealthcare as a system.Narrative in Medicine- October 29, 2003 My invaluable assistant, Jill Hickok, told me about an NPR presentation on the use of story telling in medicine. We are trying to do something similar in Whatcom County to heighten the awareness and understanding of the relational aspects of medicine, especially chronic conditions. We are coming to believe that among all the change and stresses of medicine the experience is loosing it's meaning for some providers and patients. Focusing on people and their stories is one way to combat the...http://www.wwpp.org/users/0000002/2003/10/29.html#a459 QualityHealthcare.org, take a look around- October 21, 2003 The Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the British Medical Journal with support from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and others have developed a very useful site, QualityHealthcare.org, for anyone working on healthcare improvement. If you have not seen this, log-in and take a look around. It is free.http://www.wwpp.org/users/0000002/2003/10/21.html#a458 Albert Camus on Community, Hope and Creativity- October 21, 2003 "Great ideas come into the world as quietly as doves. Perhaps then , if we listen attentively we shall hear, among the uproar of empires and nations, the faint fluttering of wings, the gentle stirrings of life and hope. Some will say this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished by millions of solitary individuals whose deeds and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history. Each and every one, on the...http://www.wwpp.org/users/0000002/2003/10/21.html#a457 From Programs to Movements- October 21, 2003 The Bureau of Primary Health Care has successfully jump started the 100% Access 0 Disparity movement in America. Spokane, WA area is implementing a similar approch. There is a summary of the BPHC experience that is very enlightening, if you wish to switch from projects and programs to "movements". I highly recommend reading it if you need to scale up some initiative to include more stakeholders. A remarkable overview of the journy and the liberating concepts is chronicaled by John Scanlon..http://www.wwpp.org/users/0000002/2003/10/21.html#a456 |