For five years I worked at GlassHospital’s Student Care Center. One of the great things about GlassHospital is that it sits on the campus of a well-known and fairly well-respected former Big Ten university. (What’s that you say? That’s right….Big Ten…in the 1930′s! You can still go to the main athletic gym and see the [...]
6Sep10
Back to School
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Posted in humor, narrative, patient experience, primary care, reminiscence
Tagged back to school, college health, students
Tagged back to school, college health, students
31Aug10
Doctor Yenta
GlassHospital has been featured in a publication produced down the road at FancyHospital. I’m delighted to share with you the recently published issue No. 8 of Atrium, available free for download by clicking on the link here. Many readers know of my ‘wisdom’ project in which I brought together a retired biochemist and a retired [...]
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Posted in books, death & dying, narrative, patient experience, reminiscence
Tagged aging, emerti, wisdom
Tagged aging, emerti, wisdom
24Aug10
Cruel Shoes
GlassHospital is on vacation this week, writing to you from vibrant Toronto. Toronto is home to the Bata Shoe Museum, well worth a visit if you’re ever here on a Thursday night when admission is free. In addition to a display featuring shoes of Elton John and
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Posted in health & wellness, humor, medical mystery, narrative, patient experience
Tagged foot pain, gotta be the shoes, overtesting, shoes
Tagged foot pain, gotta be the shoes, overtesting, shoes
[Editor's note: I've truncated this post because it was picked up by Slate for their Medical Examiner column. Check it out over there & feel free to comment there and here! -GH] A year ago, U.K. officials released convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi to Libya on humanitarian grounds, based on a prediction that he [...]
Dear Readers: This was a pitch for a magazine article, so I apologize if it’s a little too wonk-y. I decided to post it here to see what other ideas you could drum up. Quick summary: There’s an idea floating around called the Patient-Centered Medical Home–a way to integrate, automate, and improve how primary medical [...]
