Now Reading: Don’t hand the keys over, collaborate with Gen Y
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Nayar, Vineet: "Handing the Keys to Gen Y," Harvard Business Review, May, 2013
On the one hand, this post is way overdue. On the other hand, it’s right on time. Overdue because I was supposed to write a half-way summary of my co-mentorship relationship with Katie Rovere (@katierovere) , who’s on the board of GenKP, the Generation Y Employee Resource Group of Kaiser Permanente. Right on Time because we’re [...]
Now Reading: Integrating Patient- and Family-Centered Care With Health Policy
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As Regina Holliday (@ReginaHolliday) and I discussed in our TEDx Talk (“Embrace of Failure” – Henry Ford Innovation Institute), health care is addicted to not involving patients and families in the design of the system that’s built for their benefit. Multiple reasons, including fear, lack of self-confidence, and also not knowing how to do it. [...]
Now Reading: Electronic medical records and the transgender patient – to eliminate, not create, disparities
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WPATH recommends1—in concert with policy statements from the American Medical Association,2 the American Psychiatric Association,3 the American Psychological Association,4 the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,5 and the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health at the University of California, San Francisco6—that the healthcare needs of transgender people should be openly and properly addressed, at the [...]
Now Reading: Care of Transsexual Persons — NEJM, in the era of inclusion
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Gooren LJ. Care of Transsexual Persons. New England Journal of Medicine. 2011;364(13):1251–1257.
Care of Transsexual Persons — NEJM – I’m not going to summarize this article because many of its recommendations are now outdated, even though it was published in 2011. You can access WPATH guidelines for the most accurate information. See: Now Reading: Choosing Wisely : Standards of Care for the Health of Trans People | [...]
Now Reading: The sustained psychological distress from not sharing information with patients
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The title of this post is a riff of a line written by our ancestors in 1991, that I loved so much (see: Now Reading: “Concern that sharing information with patients may cause sustained psychological distress is probably unfounded” | Ted Eytan, MD). Back then, McLaren, et. al, had decided to stop pleading with the medical [...]
Now Reading: Choosing Wisely : Standards of Care for the Health of Trans People
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The overall goal of the SOC [standards of care] is to provide clinical guidance for health professionals to assist transsexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming people with safe and effective pathways to achieving lasting personal comfort with their gendered selves, in order to maximize their overall health, psychological well-being, and self-fulfillment. The standards are published by [...]
Now Reading: Addressing Climate Change among Insurers, some are doing more than others
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Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey: 2012 Findings and Recommendations - Ceres
When I asked about the phenomenon of climate change and if the impact on our health was real, a wise person once said to me, “look at insurance companies.” Meaning, look at the industry whose role in society is to understand risk. This report put out by Ceres (@ceresnews), a nonprofit organization advocating for sustainability leadership, capitalized, or [...]