Pam Kress-Dunn, medical librarian at Mercy Medical Center in Dubuque,Iowa, answers that question beautifully! In this latest installment article published online in the magazine
'Pulse', the reader is afforded an authentic glympse into the daily challenges of the hospital librarian, that largely stealth pillar and support of evidence-based medical practice.
'Pulse: Voices from the heart of medicine' delivers compelling, powerful first-person stories about health care written by patients and doctors, caregivers and nurses, mental health professionals and students. Real-life health care is captured in a way that is honest, intimate and unique; opening a window into the world of medicine. For more
'voices' from the
'heart of medicine' tune in weekly to
Pulse Magazine .
Labels: culture of healthcare, healthcare workers, hospital librarian, hospital services, Hospitals, medical librarian, medical library, Mercy Medical Center, narratives, stories of healthcare
Becker's Hospital Review has released it's list of what it has determined to be the top 50 hospitals in America. The list covers
"a wide spectrum from well-known academic medical centers to less widely recognized community hospitals. Each of these organizations has put patients' needs first, driven a variety of innovations and helped to set the bar for high-quality care. Each hospital has an impressive list of achievements and a story to tell."
Click on the post title to access the full article by
Leigh Page called
"50 Best Hospitals in America" (Feb 24, 2011).
Labels: hospital ratings, Hospitals, United States
"The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal. Now survival is commonplace, and a large part of the credit goes to the irreplaceable component of medicine known as intensive care.
If a new drug were as effective at saving lives as Peter Pronovost’s checklist, there would be a nationwide marketing campaign urging doctors to use it."The New Yorker, by Atul Gawande, 12/10/07.
Labels: Checklists, Hospitals, ICU, Infections, Intensive-Care Units, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Peter Pronovost, Sinai-Grace Hospital
